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| PPA Awards 2007 | |
6 December 2007 - Magazine
Awards Announced
Awards of excellence were conferred on magazine publishers, editors
and designers at a gala ceremony in Dublin on Thursday 6 December.
A total of 12 awards were made spanning the wide range of skills involved
in magazine production.
MC David Mc Williams at the PPAI Awards
The premier award went to Norah Casey of Harmonia which publishes Irish Tatler, Woman's Way, U Magazine, Diarmuid Gavin's Garden Designs, Food&Wine and Eat Out, as well as a range of contract titles including Cara, K Club, Dundrum and Superquinn.
Judge VIncent Jennings (CSNA) and Grace Aungier (Chief Executive PPAI) at the PPAI Awards
The top consumer magazine award went to Image and the consumer specialist magazine award went to Easy Food.
The full list of award winners includes:
Publisher of the Year - Norah Casey - Harmonia
Publisher of the Year: Alan Heatley
(Microprint) presents the award to Norah Casey
of Harmonia at the
PPAI Awards
Consumer Magazine of the Year - Image - Image Publications
Consumer Magazine of the Year: Ian
Keogh (Managing Director Newspread)
presents the award to Melanie Morris
of Image magazine at the PPAI Awards
Consumer Specialist Magazine of the Year - Easy Food - Zahra Publishing
Consumer Specalist Magazine of the
Year: Tony Ayles (St. Ives group)
presents the award to Gina Miltiadou
of Easy Food at the PPAI Awards
Business to Business Magazine of the Year - IMJ - Mount Media
Business to Business Magazine of the
Year: Ronan Faherty (An Post)
presents the award to John Mc Gee of
IMJ at the PPAI Awards
Business to Business Specialist Magazine of the Year - Euro Times - Euro Times
Winner of Business to Business Specialist
Magazine of the Year: Mary Finan
presents the award to publisher Carol
Fitzpatrick of EuroTimes
Editor of the Year - Susan Vasquez - Kiss
Editor of the Year: of the Year: Colm
Lynam of Combined Media presents
the award to Editor Susan Vasquez
of Kiss at the PPAI Awards
Designer of the Year (Joint Award) - Dillon St Paul - Kiss; - Jane Matthews - Image
Designers of the Year Award: Ken
Clelland from Graham & Heslip presents the
awards to Dillon St.
Paul for Kiss and Jane Matthews for Image at the PPAI Awards
Magazine Student Writer Award
Michael Donohue from DIT Aungier Street for an article he wrote for
Hot Press.
Magazine Student writer Award: Roy
Thewlis from Typeform presents the award to
Michael Donaghue from DIT
Aungier St. at the PPAI Awards
Annual of the Year - HighBall - Ashville Media Group
Annual of the
Year Award: Niall Halligan from W&G Baird printers presents
the award to Brian O' Neill of
Highball
Customer Magazine of the Year - The Market - Enterprise Ireland
Customer Magazine of the Year: Gerry
Boylan (Boylan Print Group) presents the award to
Mary Sweetman of
The Market - Enterprise Ireland at the PPAI Awards
Website of the Year - hotpress.com - Hot Press
Website of the Year: Barry Baker
from mymag online presents the award
to Niall Stokes from Hot Press
at the PPAI Awards
The PPAI Awards presentation has become a major media event attended by the entire Irish magazine industry and are a real badge of honour for the winners. The Awards are open to all
Irish magazine publishers, not just PPAI members, and as such they
represent the accolade of the entire industry. The judging panel is
independent of the PPAI and made up of media experts.
Mary Finan, Chairman RTE Authority, chaired the judging panel.
Other members of the judging panel were:
Elaine
Geraghty, Chief Executive, Newstalk 106-108
Sean McCrave, Chief Executive, Institute of Advertising Practitioners
in Ireland (IAPI)
Roisin Ingle - Columnist, The Irish Times
Louis Humphrey, Creative Director, Anderson Spratt
Ian Keogh, Managing Director, Newspread
Vincent Jennings, Chief Executive, Convenience Store and Newsagents
Association (CSNA)
The sponsors were Boylan Print Group, Sooner than Later, An Post, St Ives Group, Combined Media, Newspread, W&G Baird, MyMagonline, Typeform, Graham & Heslip, Microprint and ABC Ireland.
Pictures are available from Kim Haughton at kimpho@eircom.net
Further details are available at www.magazinesireland.ie or
from Grace Aungier, Chief Executive, Periodical Publishers' Association
of Ireland (PPAI) tel: 01 667 55 79
Finalists in each category were:
Consumer Magazine of the YearKiss - VIP Magazine Group
U Magazine - Harmonia
Consumer Specialist Magazine of the Year
Confetti - Dyflin Publications
PC Live! - Mediateam
Business to Business Magazine of the Year
Architecture Ireland - Nova
Publishing
Perspective - Ulster Journals
Business to Business Specialist Magazine of
the Year
Law Society Gazette – Law Society of
Ireland
Creative Head Ireland – Creative Head Ireland
Customer Magazine of the Year
K Club – Harmonia
Superquinn - Harmonia
Website of the Year
cbg.ie – Page
7 Media
accountancyireland.ie - ICAI
Previous Winners
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