The Irish Times has 37 entries shortlisted for the upcoming Irish Journalism Awards in Dublin later this month.

The entries are spread across a range of categories including arts, business, crime, foreign affairs coverage, news, investigative, opinion, politics, sports and features journalism.

Arthur Beesley, Jennifer Bray, Kitty Holland and Paul Cullen have all been nominated for news reporter of the year.

Beesley has also been nominated for scoop of the year for his story “Watchdog ignored objections of top officials to reject Varadkar leak inquiry” as has Conor Gallagher, who is shortlisted for crime journalist of the year, for his story “Secret Anglo-Irish air defence agreement dates back to the Cold War era”.

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Bray is also nominated for political journalist of the year while Cullen is shortlisted in the investigative journalism category alongside Naomi O’Leary, who is also nominated for her foreign coverage.

Daniel McLaughlin, Jade Wilson, Sally Hayden are also shortlisted in the foreign coverage category.

Shauna Bowers and Conor Capplis were shortlisted for young journalist of the year while Laura Slattery has been nominated for showbiz journalist of the year.

Lara Marlowe and Seanín Graham are shortlisted in the broadsheet features category. Marlowe, Keith Duggan and Patrick Freyne are nominated in the arts journalism and criticism category.

Anthea Rowan, Fintan O’Toole, Justine McCarthy and Orla Tinsley have been shortlisted in the columnist of the year broadsheet category.

Gavin Cummiskey, Gordon Manning and Malachy Clerkin were nominated in the broadsheet sports journalist category, with Mark Paul picking up a nomination for business journalist of the year.

Irish Times video journalists Enda O’Dowd and Chris Maddaloni were nominated for their work, and the podcast team were nominated for The Women’s Podcast.

The Irish Times Magazine was shortlisted for magazine of the year and front page of the year, with two nominations also in the digital innovation category.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in the Mansion House on November 15th.

Full list of Irish Times entries shortlisted:

• Business Journalist of the Year – Mark Paul (Mark Paul: Runaway public spenders are like climate change deniers who want our kids to pick up the tab; Don’t cry for Seán Quinn – even if he cannot stop doing it for himself; Emails, ‘lies’, robots and pencils: inside IDA Ireland’s bitter dispute with Terry Clune’s Connect Ireland)
• Columnist of the Year (Broadsheet) – Anthea Rowan (Dementia Diary: Alzheimer’s sweeps an eraser across the blackboard... We are all dust; Dementia Diary: ‘Have you got your mum a toy cat yet?’ I was once appalled by this question; Dementia Diary: ‘I’m sorry. I forgot you were my daughter’)
• Columnist of the Year (Broadsheet) – Fintan O’Toole (Fintan O’Toole: I don’t miss the Ireland that required us to marry in secret; Fintan O’Toole: The full, unexpurgated version of Up the ‘Ra; Fintan O’Toole: Enoch Burke’s transformation into an icon of freedom of expression is frankly hilarious)
• Columnist of the Year (Broadsheet) – Justine McCarthy (Justine McCarthy: Young people are the new frontier in the hatred wars; Justine McCarthy: How Creeslough’s priest reminded us of the church’s still-vital role; Justine McCarthy: The young emigrate yet the golden circle endures)
• Columnist of the Year (Broadsheet) – Orla Tinsley (Orla Tinsley: Life is too short and unpredictable, so eat your curry chips now; Orla Tinsley: ‘I stay in the sun seeking something beyond reality as long as I can’; Orla Tinsley: I have been in earth-shattering pain for three weeks. My consultants don’t know why)
• Crime Journalist of the Year – Conor Gallagher (How the HSE cyber attack changed the face of online crime globally; Inside the Gerard Hutch PR machine: ‘Whether it was intentional or not, he did very well at marketing himself’; Alleged Balkan war criminal found living in Ireland after many years)
• Arts Journalism and Criticism – Keith Duggan (Druid & O’Casey: ‘The plays deal with the tenements, poverty... problems we are still deep dealing with’; Paul Mescal: ‘Movie stardom is different to fame ... It takes so much work to achieve’; Actor Bryan Murray on his Alzheimer’s: ‘There is no short-term memory. It is not the end of the world for me. But – there is a but’)
• Arts Journalism and Criticism – Lara Marlowe (Manet/Degas: a compelling portrait of friends, rivals, jealousy and slashed paintings; Vermeer: The once-in-a-lifetime display of the most beautiful paintings in the world; Edna O’Brien: ‘If I don’t write, I might as well not live’)
• Arts Journalism and Criticism – Patrick Freyne (Patrick Freyne: The main thing I’m learning from Obsession is that having an affair is way easier than I thought; Patrick Freyne: As a toad sits on his head, it’s clear Matt Hancock is inured to all humiliation; Emily in Paris is the work of an evil genius. I’m obsessed with it)
• Features Journalist of the Year (Broadsheet) – Lara Marlowe (Is Russia using rape as a weapon of war in Ukraine?; ‘For a long time Wagner were regarded as scruffy mercenaries. Western armies have finally woken up’; Odesa and Russia: ‘First they send a ballerina. Then they send a tank’)
• Features Journalist of the Year (Broadsheet) – Seanín Graham (‘I’m getting married ... you’re both invited’: The former IRA man, UVF ex-prisoner and retired British soldier who became friends; ‘Dad, it’s the White House on the phone’: David Trimble’s son and wife reflect on role he played in peace process; ‘Bandit country’: 25 years after the Belfast Agreement, the stigma lives on for Crossmaglen)
• Foreign Coverage – Daniel McLaughlin (Ukraine floods: ‘First occupation and now this - it’s another nightmare’; Ukraine’s ‘band of brothers’: The war stories of five friends from Lviv; Irish-funded heart surgeons and Ukraine’s ‘miracle kid’)
• Foreign Coverage – Jade Wilson (Death in the Mediterranean: ‘It’s a graveyard. What’s happening ... we cannot pretend we didn’t know’; Italy and migrants: Fast track for Ukrainians, slow wait for other refugees; ‘We are very simple people. We don’t like a fancy life’: Settler expansion and the price Palestinians pay)
• Foreign Coverage – Naomi O’Leary (Discovery of rare minerals needed for mobile phones hits Arctic’s indigenous protectors; Race to preserve gulag memories of Moldova’s contested Soviet past; Belgium promises to increase deportations as asylum seeker homelessness hits crisis point)
• Foreign Coverage – Sally Hayden (A famine that’s not a famine: ‘Children are waiting to die’; ‘I feel betrayed’: How Sudan’s pro-democracy movement lost its hope and found new unity; Death in Sierra Leone: When protest turned to tragedy, the state offered money but no remorse)
• Front Page of the Year – In his life he has made me proud and in his death he has made me proud (December 23rd, 2022)
• Investigative Journalism – Naomi O’Leary (Inside Shopify: How a tech giant quietly axed a wave of Irish workers; Uber files: Lobbyist joked about finding ‘amazing’ job for Irish EU official; How the Luxembourg landlord who put flats on Airbnb after evicting tenants built an Irish property empire)
• Investigative Journalism – Paul Cullen (Paul Cullen: What prompted Irish health insurers to make innovative new cancer drugs available to subscribers?; Laya and Irish Life customers to get faster access to cancer drugs following policy U-turn; ‘Extremely unfair’ - the imbalance in health insurance cover for life-changing cancer drugs)
• Magazine of the Year – The Irish Times Magazine
• Political Journalist of the Year – Jennifer Bray (‘Any woman in her right mind would not go into politics. You are completely dehumanised’; ‘Nobody has said it to my face’ - Helen McEntee hits back at sexism on her return from maternity leave; Politicians to get ‘security allowance’ for CCTV and alarms amid concern over threats)
• Showbiz Journalist of the Year – Laura Slattery (Oscars 2023 as it happened: Everything Everywhere All at Once cleans up; Eurovision 2023 semi-final as it happened: Ireland’s Wild Youth knocked out)
• News Reporter of the Year – Arthur Beesley (An Bord Pleanála chairman under pressure over handling of Hyde controversy; Watchdog ignored objections of top officials to reject Varadkar leak inquiry; China’s embassy questions Irish moves against ‘high-risk vendors’ such as Huawei)
• News Reporter of the Year – Jennifer Bray (‘Nobody has said it to my face’ - Helen McEntee hits back at sexism on her return from maternity leave; Politicians to get ‘security allowance’ for CCTV and alarms amid concern over threats; Former Garda chief Nóirín O’Sullivan to lead taskforce on politicians’ safety)
• News Reporter of the Year – Kitty Holland (Stardust: ‘I am the mother of William McDermott, Marcella and George who I loved very much’; Man paralysed when mechanical claw lifted his tent in Dublin feels ‘lucky to be alive’; Men with dogs, sticks and baseball bat attack Dublin migrant camp)
• News Reporter of the Year – Paul Cullen (Paul Cullen: What prompted Irish health insurers to make innovative new cancer drugs available to subscribers?; Laya and Irish Life customers to get faster access to cancer drugs following policy U-turn; ‘Extremely unfair’ - the imbalance in health insurance cover for life-changing cancer drugs)
• Digital Innovation of the Year – Irish Times Audience Team, Visual Storytelling
• Digital Innovation of the Year – Irish Times Digital Team, Live Story
• Podcast of the Year – The Women’s Podcast
• Scoop of the Year – Arthur Beesley (Watchdog ignored objections of top officials to reject Varadkar leak inquiry)
• Scoop of the Year – Conor Gallagher (Secret Anglo-Irish air defence agreement dates back to the Cold War era)
• Sportswriter of the Year (Broadsheet) – Gavin Cummiskey (Hakim Ziyech, a magician at the heart of Moroccan love story; The Irish man who went from the top of US Soccer to pariah of the game; Doha fever dream: Tales from the protest World Cup)
• Sportswriter of the Year (Broadsheet) – Gordon Manning (Marathon man Pat Hooper will be missed but not forgotten; Tom Creedon 40 years gone but never forgotten: ‘I think about him every day, he’ll be on the front of my mind on Sunday’; Meath v Dublin, and a bond that goes way beyond brawling)
• Sportswriter of the Year (Broadsheet) – Malachy Clerkin (Bryan Cooper on his fear of falling: Why the celebrated jockey is retiring at age 30; We don’t expect much from the Ireland soccer team but a bit of hope never hurts; The life and death of Red Óg Murphy: ‘We had no reason to believe anything was wrong’
• Best Use of Video – Chris Maddaloni (gethan&myles create immersive work for Ulysses’ 100th anniversary)
• Best Use of Video – Enda O’Dowd (How anti-immigrant sentiment is emboldening Ireland’s far right)
• Young Journalist of the Year – Conor Capplis (Mullets are back. I’ve got one, and I don’t care if you don’t like it. I think I look class)
• Young Journalist of the Year – Shauna Bowers (Soiled mattresses, rats and intimidation by ‘fake police’ among tenant reports to tribunal; Many tenants overholding on properties as they can find nowhere else to go; The Residential Tenancies Board: Is it fit for purpose?)