Holiday World Show / Aer Lingus secondary school writing competition winner
- Overall: Cían Byrne (for a collection of work, printed in Irish Examiner, Sunday Life, Irish Independent Magazine, theloamwolf ()sponsored by Spanish Tourism Office & Costa del Sol Tourism).
- (sponsored by Soll Tourist Board Austria in association with Aer Lingus)
- Broadcast Local: Fergal O’Keefe (Clare FM Morning Focus Show (sponsored by UWalk and Navan Travel)
- Broadcast National: Tracy O’Connor (Producer/Director) of Nationwide – Ballybunion,.third episode of Nationwide’s special summer holiday series in Ballybunion in North County Kerry” Presenter Anne Cassin (sponsored by TUI)
- Digital Media: Deirdre Mullins, published on rte.ie, finding the beat of Berlin, from Berghain to Hackesher Markt, (sponsored by Click&Go Holidays)
- Home Market (Ireland): Pól Ó Conghaile: Published in the Irish Independent C’Mon da town, How Dundalk went from ‘dour’ to a destination worth shouting about & Blowing into Ballydehob, How a tiny West Cork town became a cultural crossroads, (Sponsored by Fáilte Ireland)
- Long Haul Daragh Keany of the Sunday World: “Master of the universal…Pulling the trigger on ‘the big one’ after years of planning and stalling” in the Sunday World (Sponsored by Cassidy Travel)
- Northern Ireland: Jim Gallagher, for a piece about the Irish camino and Armagh entitled “Historic Hiking in the Footsteps of St Patrick” in the Irish Examiner (Sponsored by TourismNI).
- Short Haul :Tom Sweeney (Sponsored by Sunway and Constantinou Hotels), Estonia’s got Tallinn Secret Capital Simply superb , Clyde and Bonnie, Cordobas’s main attractions, Rollin’s on the river.
- Ski & Adventure: Catherine Murphy articles published across, Irish Daily Mail, Sunday Independent, Irish Daily Star, Irish Mirror
- Sustainable: Domhnall O’Donoghue, published in the Belfast Telegraph Magazine, Dancing to the beat of their drum, Making Environmental Waves, The Many Flavours of Oregon, (sponsored by Spanish Tourism Office and Andalucia)/.
- Gerry O’Hare Memorial Award for best Newcomer: Emer Roche, “My daughters first Gaeltacht and why its magic ensures from Gen Z to Alpha”, in the Sunday Independent (sponsored by Visit Malta)
- Holiday World Show Secondary School Young Writer of the Year Dylan of St Andrew’s College (Sponsored by Aer Lingus).
Previous winners
1986 Isabel Conway, 2002 Cleo Murphy, 2003, 2004 Pól Ó Conghaile, 2005 Kathryn Thomas, 2006 Muriel Bolger, 2007 Philip Nolan, 2008 Pól Ó Conghaile, 2009 Mark Evans, 2010 Philip Nolan, 2011 Isabel Conway, 2012 Susan Morrell, 2013 Pól Ó Conghaile, 2014 Pól Ó Conghaile, 2015 Isabel Conway, 2016 Yvonne Gordon, 2017 Mal Rogers, 2018 Pól Ó Conghaile, 2019 Isabel Conway, 2021 Catherine Murphy, 2022 Hector Ó hEochagáin, 2023, 2024, Domhnal O’Donoghue, 2025 Cian Byrne
