Our Media & Entertainment team are wrapping up another busy year legally reviewing and providing pre-publication advice to our clients. We were thrilled to see so many of our clients receive nominations at the recent An Post Irish Book Awards 2024.

Congratulations to Seán Ronayne and Hachette Books for winning Dubray Biography of the Year for ‘Nature Boy – A journey of birdsong and belonging’, and also to Johnny Sexton and Penguin Random House for picking up Eason Sports Book of the Year for ‘Obsessed – The Autobiography’.

Flynn O’Driscoll advised on the following books from this year’s shortlist:

SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR
• The Racket: by Conor Niland
• Blood & Thunder - Rugby and Irish Life: A History: by Liam Callaghan
• Obsessed – The Autobiography: by Johnny Sexton
• My Autobiography: by Davy Russell & Donn McClean
• My Story - by Joe Canning & Vincent Hogan‍

‍NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
• Murder at the Lordship: by Pat Murray and Robin Schiller

BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR
• Leaning on Gates: by Seamus O’Rourke
• Nature Boy – A journey of birdsong and belonging: by Séan Ronayne

LISTENER’S CHOICE AWARD
• The Racket: by Conor Niland

FOOD & DRINK BOOK OF THE YEAR
• The Home Sommelier: by Brigid O’Hara

Also advised on the 2024 Best Sellers below:

MH Gill
• My Brother Jason: The Untold Story of Jason Corbett’s Life and Brutal Death by Tracy Corbett-Lynch with Ralph Riegel
• A Hundred to One by Pat Sheedy
• Standing in Gaps by Seamus O’Rourke
• This is Not a Self-Help Book by Mark Mehigan
• Whatever it Takes by Richie Hogan
• Under the Rainbow by Shane Kenny

‍Hachette Books
• I Loved Him from the Day He Died My Father, Forgiveness and a Final Pilgrimage by Michael Harding

‍Bonnier Books
• Running from Office: Confessions of Ambition and Failure in Politics by Eoghan Murphy
• Web of Betrayal: Murder in Ireland’s brutal gangland by Nicola Tallant

‍Irish Academic Press
• Stronger by Nicola Hanney

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