Digital Business Ireland and Permanent TSB have announced the winners and runners-up of their annual National Digital Awards series.
With leading brands such as ez Living, Harvey Norman, Pamela Scott and Currys being rewarded for their sterling efforts in the digital arena over 2021, it was Ireland’s leading supplier of postal and e-commerce services, An Post, who walked away with the prestigious National Website of the Year Award.
This year, the Awards were held digitally and MC for the evening was national broadcaster, Jonathan Healy.
The Awards spanned twenty categories, and attracted more than four hundred entries from businesses, people and organisations across Ireland.
Now in its second iteration, this year’s Awards series included the addition of a new category – Digital Advocate of the Year.
Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Damien English T.D. was the recipient of this year’s award, in recognition of his outstanding work in helping retail businesses to enhance their digital functionality and trade online, throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
There was no cost to make a submission to the National Digital Awards, due to the ongoing support of Digital Business Ireland’s long standing partnership with Permanent TSB and the generosity of the Awards’ category sponsors.
Secretary General of Digital Business Ireland, Lorraine Higgins said: “We were truly delighted to recognise the tremendous achievements of so many businesses, organisations and the people who power them through our National Digital Awards programme.
“Given we received over four hundred entries to this year’s series, it is fair to say that our expert judging panel had a momentous task in selecting the winners and runners-up in each category.
“The talent, innovation, ambition and versatility that is evident throughout the digital sector in Ireland is simply extraordinary and should be a source of great national pride among all of us”.
“While the depth of talent in this year’s series was simply awe-inspiring, we are now firmly focused on next year’s iteration – and I encourage every applicant who may not have been successful this year, to take the key learnings on-board from this year’s process and get involved once again in 2022”.
Head of Business Banking at Permanent TSB, Mags Brennan said: I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to each of this year’s winners, while offering a sincere thank you to the 400 businesses who took the time to enter across the three award categories.”
Full List of Awards
| Winner | Runner up | |
| WEBSITES | ||
| National Website | An Post | Schoolbooks.ie |
| New Website | Kaliedy | We Are Riley |
| Small Website | The Taste.ie | Jiminy Eco Toys |
| Medium Website | ez Living | McSport.ie |
| Large Website | An Post | Harvey Norman |
| Hospitality, Food and Beverage | Grá Chocolates | Peckish |
| Electrical and Tech | Harvey Norman | Currys |
| Health, Beauty and Wellbeing | Riley | Evergreen Health Foods |
| Not-for Profit | ‘Put Us in the Picture’ by Sightsavers | Irish Guide Dogs |
| Professional Services | WONDR Digital Product Practice | AML Intelligence |
| Education | Schoolbooks.ie | UCD Professional Academy |
| Most Trusted | Pamela Scott | Team Hope |
| PEOPLE | ||
| Digital Trailblazer | Ashley McDonnell – PUIG | Keith Mahon – The Taste.ie |
| Women in Digital | Stella Power – Annertech | Ashley McDonnell – PUIG |
| Next Generation | Charlie Butler – Bounce Insights | Niamh Tallon – Her Sport |
| Digital Advocate | Minister Damien English | |
| INNOVATION | ||
| Social Media Campaign | Day Break | Futureproof Media |
| Sustainable Business | Reuzi | Ballykilcavan |
| Digital Impact | Gabadoo | Huggnote |
| Business Hub | Ludgate Hub | Wicklow Hub |
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