Clare’s Rebecca Ryan at Irish Book Awards 2016

Clare schoolgirl Rebecca Ryan joined celebrities including Graham Norton and Paul O’ Connell at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards held in Dublin last Wednesday. Rebecca’s book Dictatorship – My Teenage War With OCD was shortlisted for the RTÉ Radio 1’s The Ryan Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award 2016.

This year, over 45,000 readers and book lovers made their voices heard and voted to select the winners in each of the 12 categories. The public are now being asked to vote for their overall Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year. Voting is open until midnight on 9th December and anyone who votes is in with the chance of winning €100 in National Book Tokens. To vote see http://www.irishbookawards.irish/vote-for-the-book-of-the-year-win-national-book-tokens/

The category winners are

• Holding by Graham Norton – Listener’s Choice
• I Read The News Today, Oh Boy by Paul Howard
• Knights of the Borrowed Dark by Dave Rudden
• Lying In Wait by Liz Nugent
• Making It Up As I Go Along by Marian Keyes
• Pigín of Howth by Kathleen Watkins, illustrated by Margaret Anne Suggs
• Red Dirt by E.M. Reapy
• Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
• The Battle by Paul O'Connell
• The Glass Shore by Sinéad Gleeson
• The Trespasser by Tana French
• The World of the Happy Pear by Stephen & David Flynn