Mental Health Media Awards 2023 Shortlist
Mental Health Broadcasting | Short Form
For a single factual television or radio feature/documentary related to mental health.- Kerry CAMHS: A Scandal Deepens, Barry Lenihan for RTÉ Radio 1
- We aren’t Made of Stone, The Joe Finnegan Show for Shannonside Northern Sound FM
- Dealing with Miscarriage, Lunchtime Live with Andrea Gilligan for Newstalk
- Councillor Liam Brazil and his ‘Suicide or Survive’ Cycle, Kieran Foley for WLR FM
- Living with Psychosis, Lunchtime Live with Andrea Gilligan for Newstalk
Mental Health Journalism | Local Print & Online
For a single print or online news report or feature, published in a regional or local news outlet, about or related to mental health:
- Wexford campaigner says it’s ‘too late’ for HSE CAMHS apology – ‘Young lives have been destroyed, Pádraig Byrne for Wexford People
- Reaching out to other bereaved dads in Cork, Chris Dunne for The Echo
- Navigating Life with Dementia, Jacqueline Hogge for The Tuam Herald
- ‘I didn’t think I’d make it to my 15th birthday but now I am studying law’, Richard Canny for Roscommon Herald
- Simon reaching out to Cork’s Homeless, Donal O’Keeffe for The Echo
Mental Health Broadcasting | Long Form
For a factual journalistic or magazine programme broadcast on television or radio, either standalone or one episode from a series, about or related to mental health:
Special Recognition
For an individual with lived experience of mental ill health who, in their own words, shares their story to help and educate a wider audience:
- Geraldine and Remond Murphy for The life and death of Red Óg Murphy, featured in The Irish Times
- Ciara Mangan for Ciara Mangan on holding rapist to account, featured in the Irish Independent
- Bob McQuaid for ‘The Viagra was handed to me as though it were a live bomb’ featured in The Journal
- Mark and David Ryan for Blackrock Boys, featured on RTÉ Radio One
- Laura Guckian, for Navigating a major maternal mental health challenge, featured on Unspoken Podcast
Mental Health Journalism | National Print/Online
For a single print or online news report or feature, published in a national news outlet, about or related to mental health:
- ‘It’s very hard to see to a loved one, with cuffs on, in prison, because there’s nowhere else for him to go’, Noel Baker for the Irish Examiner
- Siblings forgotten by mental health services for up to six years, Shane Phelan for the Irish Independent
- How tech addiction is hitting Ireland with kids glued to PlayStation and ‘doomscrolling’ for hours, Mary Cate Smith for The Sunday Times
- Ciara Mangan Exclusive interview, Catherine Fegan for the Irish Independent
- The life and death of Red Óg Murphy, Malachy Clerkin for The Irish Times
Mental Health Content | Digital
For websites, podcasts, interactive online features, apps, interactive documentaries and other digital technologies that use creative and innovative techniques and content to expand knowledge and understanding of, and engagement with, mental ill health:
- When Horses Run, Virgin Media TV/Sharp Shorts
- ‘I’d raze it to the ground and start again’ – mothers speak out on Camhs failures, Bernice Harrison for The Irish Times ‘In the News’ Podcast
- Redacted Lives: Episode 1, The Journal
- The River Angels: Limerick’s suicide prevention river patrol groups, Adam Leahy for Limerick Post Podcast
- In the Shadows, Dean Kavanagh
Shine Audience Choice Award
For a piece of Irish media (print, online, or broadcast) that has impacted the Irish public and/or shaped the public conversation on mental ill health in Ireland. This is the only award chosen entirely by the public:
Mental Health Content | Special Interest
For a feature article (550 words or longer) published in print or online about or related to mental health. This may include specialist features such as sport, music, food and health and may be published across any platform, including newspaper supplements or magazines:
- The Invisible Struggle of Borderline Personality Disorder, Niamh Devereux for Irish Country Magazine
- The life and death of Red Óg Murphy, Malachy Clerkin for The Irish Times
- Tusla ‘not fit for purpose’ as parents plead for help, Ann Murphy for the Irish Examiner
- Birth trauma: ‘I spent nine months terrified, anxious and a shell of the person I once was, Geraldine Walsh for The Irish Times Magazine
- Blind Justice: How prison is leaving Travellers isolated and traumatised, Michelle Hennessey, Maria Delaney and Martin Beanz Warde for The Journal and Noteworthy.ie
Student Journalism Award
For a piece of media, including radio, digital or print made by a student as part of a course at a university or third level institute, about or related to mental health:
- The Hidden Epidemic, Rose Slocock for TCD Misc. Magazine
- Is it me or my OCD?, Documentary by Valerie McHugh
- So much Fatter, Akshita Hunka for TN2 Magazine
- Demystifying PMDD, Ella Sloane for Trinity News
- Unbroken: A year in the life, Documentary by Alla Pavlutska
