Ireland and Scotland get 8 awards at Celtic Meida Festival

Irish and Scottish producers took 8 gongs each at the Celtic Media Festival in Aviemore. Ireland took home the awards for TV Comedy (BBC NI's Soft Boarder), Current Affairs (RTÉ's Carers in Crisis), Factual Entertainment (RTÉ's The Rotunada), History (Channel 4's The Ballymurphy Precedent), Radio Comedy (BBC Ulster's A Perforated Ulster), Radio Documentary (RTÉ's Doc on One, In Shame, Love, In Shame), Radio Magazine Show (BBC Ulster's The John Toal Show), Film Documentary (The Man Who Wanted To Fly) and Spirit of the Festival for TG4's Lomax in Éirinn.

TV - Winners

Animation - Widdershins - Scotland

Arts - Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell JAR - Wales

Children's Programming - Mabinogi-ogi - Wales

Comedy - Soft Boarder Control - Ireland

Current Affairs - Prime Time - Carers in Crisis - Ireland

Drama - Un Bore Mercher - Wales

Entertainment - Celtic Connections: Bothy Culture and Beyond - Scotland

Factual Entertainment - The Rotunda - Ireland

Factual Series - Drych: Chdi, Fi ac IVF - Wales

History - The Ballymurphy Precedent - Ireland

Radio - Winners

Comedy - A Perforated Ulster - Ireland

Documentary - Doc on One: In Shame, Love, In Shame - Ireland

Magazine Show - The John Toal Show - Ireland

Music - Rapal Belladrum 2018 - Scotland

Radio Presenter - Kaye Adams - Scotland

Sports - Spós na Seachdain - Scotland

Station - BBC RnaG - Scotland

Film - Winners

Drama - Bunny - Scotland

Doc Short - When Heroin Took My Dad - Scotland

Doc - The Man Who Wanted To Fly - Ireland

Drama Single - A Sombra Da Lei - Galicia

Spirit of the Festival - Lomax in Éirinn - Ireland

Sports Doc - Scotland '78: A Love Story - Scotland

8 - Scotland

8 - Ireland

4 - Wales

1 - Galicia