The nominations for the IFTA Television Awards 2015 have been revealed – and it’s new TV3 soap Red Rock that is leading the way with seven nods, which will go head to head with rival soap Fair City.
Other notable nominees are Mrs Browns Boys and 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy as well as TV3′s breakfast show Ireland AM up and RTE’s The Voice of Ireland.
And TV3 will be taking over hosting duties from RTE for the first time, after hosting the film and drama IFTAs in May earlier this year.
The awards will take place at the Double Tree Ballroom on Thursday October 22 2015. Here’s the full list of nominations:
Comedy
Irish Pictorial Weekly
Moone Boy
Mrs Browns Boys
The Savage Eye
Entertainment
50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy
The Imelda May Show
Ireland AM
The Voice of Ireland
Factual
Lords & Ladles – Mind the Gap Films
Nationwide – Fr Browne’s Forgotten War – RTE
The Zoo – Moondance Productions
Wild Ireland -Big Mountain Productions
Live Event
FleadhTV – Gifted Empire
Referendum 2015: RTÉ Live Results Coverage- RTÉ
St Patrick’s Day Concert – BBCNI
Vincent Browne in the George – TV3
Reality & Constructed Factual
A Sporting Chance
Bressies Teenage Kicks
Connected
WWOOFail California
Soap
Fair City – RTE
Red Rock – TV3
Animation
Bing -Brown Bag Films
Lily’s Driftwood Bay – SixteenSouth
Nelly and Nora- Geronimo Productions
Puffin Rock – Cartoon Saloon
Childrens and Young Poeple’s
Our Farm – GMarsh TV Productions
Saol faoi Shráid – Meangadh Fíbín
Shutterbugs – Crossing the Line
Two Tube – RTÉ
Female Performance
Cathy Belton – Red Rock
Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe
Jane McGrath – Red Rock
Deirdre O’Kane – Moone Boy
Martina Stanley – Fair City
Director – Soap and Comedy
Gary Agnew – Fair City
Lisa Mulcahy – Red Rock
Damien O’Donnell – The Savage Eye
Chris O’Dowd – Moone Boy
Director – Television
Darragh Byrne – O Se: A Legacy
Liam McGrath – Dolores Keane: A Storm in the Heart
Maurice Sweeney – Brendan Behan – The Roaring Boy
Patrick Timmons Ward – The Notorious
Editing – Television
Zaini Darragh – Des Bishop Breaking China
Mick Mahon – After Braveheart
Mick Mahon – Rough Rider
Brenda Morrissey – OCD & Me
Current Affairs
A Secret Buried: The Mother and Baby Scandal
Above The Law
Inside Bungalow 3 – RTÉ Investigations Unit
Panorama: Britain’s Secret Terror Deal
Documentary Series
Bliain In Inis Mor – Power Pictures
Darndale – The Edge of Town – Motive Television
The High Hopes Choir -Tyrone Productions
The Shelbourne -Waddell Media
Documentary Single
Close to Evil – Praxis Pictures
Dolores Keane: A Storm in the Heart – Scratch Films Ltd
It Came from Connemara!! – RTÉ
Man on Bridge – El Zorrero Films
News
BBC Newsline – The Death of Ian Paisley -BBCNI
RTÉ Six One News Graham Dwyer – RTÉ
TG4 Naucht -TG4
TV3 530 News: The Resignation of Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan-TV3
UTV Ireland Live -UTV Ireland
Specialist Factual
A Parting Gift – Loosehorse
Áille an Uafáis/A Terrible Beauty – Tile Films
Brendan Behan – The Roaring Boy – Below The Radar TV
Cumann na mBan – Mná na Réabhlóide – Genefile
The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne: Stephen Fry – RTÉ
Sports
Arkle – The Legend Lives On -Touchline Media
GAA USA -Sónta Films
The Notorious – Motive Television
Second Captains Live -Second Captains
Irish Language
Aille an Ufais n
An Bronntanas
Ar Intinn Eile
Corp is Anam
Katie
Male performance
Sean Mahon – Red Rock
Enda Oates – Fair City
Brendan O’Carroll – Mrs Browns Boys
Chris O’Dowd – Moone Boy
Andy Quirke – Damo and Ivor
Writer – soap and Comedy
Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe
Peter McKenna – Red Rock
Barry Murphy – Irish Pictorial Weekly
Chris O’Dowd & Nick Vincent Murphy – Moone Boy
Camera – Television
Eleanor Bowman – OCD & Me
Michael O’Donovan – The Long Walk
Colm Whelan – Áille an Ufáis /A Terrible Beauty
Ciaran Tanham – Red Rock
Sound – Television
After Braveheart
Ceoilchuairt
Dolphins – Ireland’s Ocean
My Fathers War
