Nominations open for 2009 Irish Blog Awards

NOMINATIONS have opened for the 2009 Irish Blog Awards and will close at 6pm on January 14th, so don't forget to nominate your favourite blogs, you can find the nomination form on the awards website.

Damien has been hard at it working away organising this year's awards which for the first time are moving to Ireland's third capital city, Cork. Hey I am a nordie, Belfast is the number 2 city ;)

But back to the weekend, personally I can't wait, we have a full posse going, Young Wan, Nanny, as well as some pals and we are heading down for the whole weekend. It should be mighty craic. It is hard to believe it is already a year since the last awards.

Over the last couple of photomeets and other bloggy events we have talked about having a photomeet in Cork on the Saturday afternoon. Hopefully if you are interested in meeting up with a gang of photobloggers you'll be about on Saturday afternoon. What do people think?

EDIT: I should have said, not that you don't already know, but the 2009 Irish Blog Awards take place on Saturday February 21st 2009, at the Cork International Airport Hotel

Woo Hoo

WOO HOO; I got a lovely surprise this morning when I learnt via Twitter (thanks Darragh) that I was one of two recipients of October Blog Post of the Month. The post is question was one I wrote about the demonstrations following the Budget, which you can catch here.

Thanks a million whoever nominated me, it really was a wonderful surprise on a sh*tty Monday morning and thanks to everyone for all the congrats :)

As I said I was one of two posts of the month, make sure you stop by the other winner, Gimme, with a beautifully written and very poignant post which you can read on his blog, Stranded on GaiA.

And thanks again :)