Business Journalist Awards Shortlist 2023

Category A : Business News Story of the Year

Article

Joe Brennan

The Irish Times

O’Brien set to lose control of Digicel

Sean Pollock

The Sunday Independent

Jameson owner Pernod Ricard resumes Russia sales

Pernod Ricard won’t halt Jameson whiskey exports to Russia after backlash forced it to suspend Absolut deliveries

Jameson owner Pernod Ricard to halt exports to Russia after backlash

Fionnán Sheahan & Melanie Finn

Irish Independent

‘Crisis at RTÉ over investigation into financial payment and corporate governance’

Category B : Business Podcast / Audio Story of the Year

Article

John Campbell (Reporter), Darran Marshall (Producer) & Mark Carruthers (Presenter)

BBC Northern Ireland

BBC Red Lines podcast: United Ireland for richer or poorer? 

Nicky Ryan and The Explainer Podcast Team- Laura Byrne and Gavin Cooney

The Journal

Episode of The Explainer: Hard cash and soft power - what is going on in the world of golf?

Mark Tighe & Ellen Coyne (Presenters) & Garrett Mulhall (Producer)

The Sunday Independent

Money for jam' - what John Delaney did next

Category C : Business Feature of the Year

Article

Joe Brennan

The Irish Times

Sinn Féin’s high-wire act: courting both big business and those ‘left behind’

Brian Carey

The Sunday Times, Ireland

The Clonbio Story - Mark Turley 

Maria Delaney & Louise Lawless

Noteworthy

Underpaid and overworked: The serious allegations by migrant fishers to the WRC

Paul O'Donoghue

The Sunday Independent

The auditor - bloodhound or watchdog?

Category D : Business Analyst of the Year

Article

Arthur Beesley

The Irish Times

Deep split over laws on 5Gtech and Chinese firm; 

Tax strategy of Larry Goodman’s beef empire under the spotlight

John Burns

The Irish Times

Any Other Business Column - includes short pieces like below -

Happy Pear uses crowdfunding to raise €2.5 million for UK expansion and to promote ‘social change’; 

What will Dublin Airport operator do with all the houses it is buying?

Niall Sargent

Noteworthy (Currently with The Currency)

‘Heads must roll’: Industry and experts argue energy crisis of ‘our own making’; Drilling for Data: Growing energy needs fuelling rise in data centre emissions

Killian Woods

Business Post

Delays and debate: Inside the Land Development Agency’s first four years; 

The €1.7m starter home: How investment funds are inflating prices in Dublin suburbs

Category E : Business Interview of the Year

Article

Linda Daly

The Sunday Times, Ireland

Ballymore’s Sean Mulryan focusing on Ireland after 40 years of ups and downs

Ellie Donnelly

Business Post Group

Our old friends Disney popped up and said, ‘Look, we’ve got Ratatouille in Paris, would you guys look at it for us?

Colm O’Farrell, Deluxe Group

Jon Ihle

The Sunday Times, Ireland

Transgender venture capital chief Caroline Farberger says she’s no radical: ‘You can’t at the same time be in a boardroom of a serious financial institution and on the barricades’

Ciara O'Brien

The Irish Times

No one debates now that we’re going electric.They did then (Meet the Irishman setting out to change the car rental world) - Aidan McClean, co-founder of UFODrive

Category F : Women in Business Journalism Award

Article

Jenny Darmody

Silicon Republic

1. Why Ireland is well positioned to capitalise on chip ‘gold rush’   

2. How deep-tech start-ups can compete on the European stage

Maria Delaney

Noteworthy

1. Hands on Deck Investigation - Navy boardings find 10 fishing vessels almost fully crewed by migrant fishers

2. Birth Place series -  'Unheard, belittled and made feel small': Women still battling for maternity care choice.

Amy Molloy

Mediahuis Ireland

1. Fraudster sister lodged money in DJCarey account   

2. Convicted fraudster Catriona Carey - who is accused of being involved in a mortgage scam - loses family home after defaulting on payments for 10 years

Category G : Upcoming Journalist of the Year

Article

Vish Gain

Silicon Republic

1. Microsoft says Irish DPC intends to slam LinkedIn with a $425m fine

2. Ireland is taking off as a world leader in drone regulation

3. Budget 2023: What’s in it for businesses in Ireland?

Caoimhe Gordon

Irish Independent

1. Corporate Ireland talks about climate targets, but how do we assess their progress?

2. Brown Thomas Arnotts boss Donald McDonald bets big on physical retail – ‘We sell an experience here’

3. Younger investors are tapping into online trading and YouTube tips after Covid lockdowns opened eyes to stock markets

Donal MacNamee

Business Post

1. Intel offers workers thousands of euro to take extended leave

2. Building watchdog claims country faces ‘national emergency’ over regulation

3. Big Read: Inside Twitter’s crumbling and disconnected Irish base