urbanmedia and The Irish Sun scooped up the ‘Podcast of The Year’ award at this year’s Irish Journalism Awards for their production of The Stardust Tragedy podcast series.
The eight-part series tells the story of Ireland’s worst fire disaster from the very beginning.
Produced by urbanmedia’s Vivienne Wood, Q102’s Kevin O’Mahony and urbanmedia’s Head of Digital, Sasha Hamrogue, the series heard from survivors and family members who were forced to deal with the emotional scars of the fire, which was responsible for 48 deaths in 1981.
Journalism at its finest, the podcast was a product of months of hard work from Irish Sun editor Fiona Wynne, scriptwriter and head of news Neil Cotter, senior reporter Michael Doyle and narrator and deputy night editor Damien Lane alongside the urban team.
