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NEED TO PICK up some books for loved ones for Christmas?
Here are the best books in Ireland for 2015, according to tonight’s Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015.
The winners
Renowned Irish American novelist JP Donleavy was presented with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award. Adding his congratulations to his friend “Mike” Donleavy by video-link was Hollywood megastar Johnny Depp, who is producing and reportedly starring in a film version of Donleavy’s 1955 novel The Ginger Man.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the star-studded awards ceremony took place in Dublin’s Double Tree Hilton and was attended by Ireland’s top writers, publishers, booksellers and media personalities including novelists Kevin Barry, Paul Murray and Belinda McKeon, broadcasters and writers Ryan Tubridy, Sinead Crowley, Diarmuid Ferriter and Matt Cooper, food writers Donal Skehan, Diana Henry and Trish Deseine, writers Paul Howard, Martina Devlin, Carlo Gebler, Roisin Ingle, and Derek Landy.
Over 45,000 votes were cast in the awards and voting for the book of the year will remain open until 17 December.
Eason Novel of the Year:
The Green Road by Anne Enright
TheJournal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year:
The Long Gaze: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers edited by Sinead Gleeson
Specsaver’s Children’s Book of the Year (Junior):
Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer and Oliver Jeffers
Specsaver’s Children’s Book of the Year (Senior):
Asking For It by Louise O’Neill
Avonmore Cookbook of the Year:
The Virtuous Tart by Susan Jane White
Ireland AM Crime Book of the Year:
After the Fire by Jane Casey
Irish Independent Popular Fiction Book of the Year:
The Way We Were by Sinead Moriarty
National Book Tokens Non-Fiction Book of the Year:
Children of the Rising by Joe Duffy
Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year:
Until Victory Always: A Memoir by Jim Mc Guinness
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year:
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
Books Are My Bag Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year:
Me and My Mate Jeffrey by Niall Breslin
RTÉ Radio 1′s The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award:
Irelandopedia by Fatti and John Burke
Writing.ie Short Story of the Year:
A Slanting of the Sun by Donal Ryan (A Slanting of the Sun)
Brendan Corbett, Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Chairperson, said:
“With these awards, one thing never changes and that is the seemingly limitless creativity of Irish writers.
“We know that every year we will be guaranteed fantastic books to choose from and that there will be great work from experienced writers and always fresh talent bursting through to challenge them as the list of winners shows.”
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Disgraceful company, stole the entire game off of a smaller developer, then sued the original developer for copyright infringement to boot. Complete and utter w*****s
Not a bunch to be trusted.
They also trademarked the word “Candy” in Europe.
Didn’t know that.
And there was me about to post a happy comment, oh well expect the worst and you’ll never be disappointed.
used to play it, got to level 167 i think, never paid a thing cos… its rigged. you could be stuck on a level from repeated play in one sitting, come back 2 days later, clear it right away. they see you’ve not used it in a while, so let you move on again. Got bored of it then. Logged into recently and im back at level 1, think they revamped it or maybe they do that if you stop using it for 6 months.
If you have kids near this, don’t let them pay a cent.
Not with a barge pole! Remember Zynga.
Bain of my life
I heard chuck norris just made it to level 587,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. He is halfway to completing the game.
On level 421 and I never have & never will pay a cent to play! :-)
Level 500 is impossible. I really don’t think it’s possible without buying extra moves or help. It’s the very last level so if you wanna finish the game you’ll have to pay up.
Level 500… Seriously, it’s driving me insane at level 86…
Got past it and on 508 now. There are no last levels, it goes on and on and on, taunting me to keep going or fail!!! Aaaah!!
No. Level 500 is the last level in Candy crush saga unless it haven’t done an update.
Dam it! Just updated it. Not on the last level anymore. Dam you Candy Crush!!
Passed level 500 yesterday after a month . Nightmare level
Hahahahaha, see it never flucking ends!! It’s a diabolical plot!!
My secret shame…..not so secret anymore :((
Feel rather sorry for guy who made Candy Stripe, which King blatantly ripped off and netted loss of earnings as result.
You can still get the original Candy Stripe on Play store.
413 million profits with 12.5% tax! That’s over 51 million to the exchequer. thanks candycrush……… or not?
93 million people with their heads down tutting!!
…mind you, it seems like a little more of a realistic valuation
They’re not giving a valuation as far as I can see though, unless their multiplier is about 1.2 in which case barge pole distance is about as close as private investors are ever likely to get! They’ve just said how much they plan to raise, but no indication of market cap in this article. If the valuation is right they’ll get plenty of interest, lots of m&a in the industry so plenty willing to have a punt in the hope a tech giant might move for them down the road.
Good point(s).
If off to spend my money on cheap hookers so.
Always a sound investment! As long as the return doesn’t involve a trip to James’ of course!
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