And the winners are

The winners in the Galway Film Fleadh awards

The winners in the Galway Film Fleadh awards

Best First Irish Short

1 Nostradamus and Me (Eilis Kirwan)

2 News for the Church (Andrew McCarthy)

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3 Behind the Music (Colm Russell)

Best Irish Short Documentary

1 Undressing My Mother (Ken Wardrop)

2 I Was You (Keith Walsh)

3 Useless Dog (Ken Wardrop)

Best Irish Short Animation

1 Skeleton Woman (Edith Pieperhoff)

2 God's Early Work (Rory Bresnihan)

3 Dublin 1 (Jason Tammemagi)

Best Irish Short - The Tiernan McBride Award

1 The Love Bite (Macdara Vallely)

2 A Ferret Called Mickey (Barry Dignam)

3 An Díog Is Faide (Hugh Farley)

Best First Irish Short Animation - The James Horgan Award

1 Cold Pursuit (Conor Ryan)

2 Tógtha (Alan Ó Cuilinn)

3 Pucker Up (Ciara McClean)

Best Feature Documentary

1 Cinegael Paradiso (Robert Quinn)

2 Festival Express (Bob Smeaton)

3 Frank Ned and Busy Lizzie (Neasa Ní Chianáin)

Best First Feature - The Pat Sheeran Award

1 Adam and Paul (Leonard Abrahamson)

2 Capital Letters (Ciaran O'Connor)

3 Omagh (Peter Travis)