The Guild of Agricultural Journalists will hold its biennial Agri Guild Awards, kindly sponsored by FBD, at the Grand Hotel, Malahide, Co. Dublin on Thursday, November 19, 2026.
The black-tie ceremony will recognise journalists for their outstanding work in national and regional media, as well as consultants in the communications sector, across nine different categories: Best News Story; Best Feature; Best Visual Report; Best Audio; Best Technical Report; Best Targeted Campaign; Best Environmental Reporting; Best Photograph and The Rising Star Award.
In addition to cash prizes for each category winner, 'The Bull', the prized bronze trophy, will be presented to the category winner whose exceptional merit will be recognised by the adjudicating panel.
This panel will be chaired by Pat O'Keeffe, corporate affairs director with Tirlán. He will be joined on the judging panel by joined by Sara McCracken (communications & PR consultant), Prof. Gerry Boyle (former director of Teagasc), Liam Lavelle (Agtel Group) and Roz O'Shaughnessy (head of communications, Bord Bia).
The deadline for submissions of entries is 5:00p.m on Thursday, October 15, 2026.
The winners will be announced at a black-tie ceremony on Thursday, November 19 chaired by former RTÉ broadcaster, Damien O'Reilly, who is EU affairs and communications manager at ICOS.
Award entrants must be members of the Agri Guild while non-members are required to join the Guild prior to submitting entries by paying a fee of €90 (which can be completed through the Agri Guild website or by contacting the Treasurer of the Agri Guild), which will provide full membership of the Guild, including all its benefits for a period of one year.
Applicants for this year's awards may only submit one entry per category. However, this does not preclude multiple entries in each category from different staff members working for the same agri-media organisation. Each entry must have been published between September 1st, 2024 and August 31st, 2026.
Entry to the awards for 2026 can be completed via the awards.agriguild.ie website; members will be able to login in to the awards entry portal and non-members will also be provided with access once membership subscription has been paid.
However, for security purposes, all current members have been issued with a login and password, therefore, when you click on the website to enter the awards and the login page appears, please click 'forgot password', and follow the instructions which will allow you to create your own new password to login.
For queries about membership, please contact secretary, Bernie Commins, at the following email address: southernsecretary@agriguild.ie. For payment queries please contact Treasurer, Michelle Jordan at treasurer@agriguild.ie.