Brendan O’Carroll, Recipient of the IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award for Comedy at The IFTA Gala Television Awards, Sunday 22nd October 2015, presented by Gay Byrne.

2015 IFTA Gala Television Winners

  • Comedy: Mrs Browns Boys
  • Entertainment: 50 Ways to Kill Your Mammy
  • Factual: Wild Ireland
  • Live Event: FleadhTV
  • Reality & Constructed Factual: Connected
  • Irish Soap: Red Rock
  • Animation: Lily's Driftwood Bay
  • Childrens and Young People's : Our Farm
  • Female Performance: Sharon Horgan - Catastrophe
  • Director - Soap and Comedy: Lisa Mulcahy - Red Rock
  • Director - television: Liam McGrath - Dolores Keane: A Storm in the Heart
  • Editing - Television: Mick Mahon - Rough Rider
  • Current Affairs: Inside Bungalow 3 - RTÉ Investigations Unit
  • Documentary Series: The High Hopes Choir -Tyrone Productions
  • Documentary Single: Close to Evil - Praxis Pictures
  • News: BBC Newsline – The Death of Ian Paisley -BBCNI
  • Specialist Factual: Cumann na mBan - Mná na Réabhlóide
  • Sports: Arkle - The Legend Lives On
  • Irish Language: Corp is Anam - Magamedia
  • Male performance : Enda Oates - Fair City
  • Writer - soap and Comedy: Sharon Horgan - Catastrophe
  • Camera - Television: Colm Whelan - Áille an Ufáis /A Terrible Beauty
  • Sound - Television: Ceoilchuairt - Magamedia