Finally something to add to my Scouting trophies
Posted on March 5, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging.
I still have the shakes and I don’t think it’s all drink related. Truly, madly, deeply stunned to win Best Blog Post at the awards last night. Thanks a million times over to all of you who voted for me. It was a bloody brilliant night overall and the highlight was Bernie refusing to take the “Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere” award and giving it to Damien instead. A well deserved standing ovation ensued.
Damien manages to have that killer combination of idealism and pragmatism which enables him to come up with a constant stream of great ideas and then execute on them. Where most of us think “wouldn’t it be great if someone did X” , Damien just thinks “let’s do it”. Thanks Damien.
I was thrilled to meet tons of people whose blogs I read daily. In particular I loved running into Sweary, FeeBee and Roos. Sweary is just an awesome blogger and both FeeBee and Roos write what I consider to be extremely important blogs with the ability to profoundly impact peoples lives in a positive way by demystifying what they are going through. I’m genuinely disappointed that none of them got an award last night.
On the subject of Sweary, I hope I didn’t bore the arse of TSG as I was polluted by the time I headed over to talk to them. I was very happy to hear that Tom out-danced me after I went to bed as I’m having flashbacks to some of my moves and they were not pretty.
Apologies to anyone who I talked drunken nonsense to, I’m nothing like that in real life 
Well done to all the winners and all those who were shortlisted. Damn that was a good night even if I was in bed by midnight……I think.
20 Replies to "Finally something to add to my Scouting trophies"
conor on March 5, 2007
Oh balls, was I? Oops. And they never even put on ABBA like I asked.
Emer/Kevin, Orla/Tony, Mary/Kieran/Louise, Pat/Rose all did an awesome job. Kids had a great time in all the houses even if Fionn the one-year-old left Bray in a girls top three sizes too small for him 
JD on March 5, 2007
Many congrats on the win. Read about it on the Sunday Turbine yesterday.
conor on March 5, 2007
Richard Develan managed to get both business and personal into one sentence. Very neatly done.
Pat Phelan on March 5, 2007
Congrats Conor
richly deservered
conor on March 5, 2007
Thanks Pat.
Already getting “and what did you write about?” from the older kids.
Tom Raftery on March 5, 2007
Richly deserved win Conor – well done.
I must have had a great night if I went out on the dance floor!
James Corbett on March 5, 2007
Well done Conor! Looks like I missed a great night, with all the crazy dance moves, drunken waffling and so on
conor on March 5, 2007
Tom, I hit the dance floor earlier than you during the AC/DC slot. Luckily no-one remembers it. Thanks
Twas a top night James. A great bunch of people and a wonderful mix too. I think the geek faction was one of the smaller ones. I indistinctly remember slagging off some technical aspect of a Fortune 500 web-site and the person beside said “shields up”.
Caroline@Bibliocook on March 5, 2007
Congratulations Conor! I got my dates all mixed up – thought it was happening on the 11th – so managed to miss out on meeting up with you all. Glad to see that you won for that squirm-inducing (even in a girl!) entry.
Feebee on March 5, 2007
Great to meet you too! And congrats on your vasectomy, I mean, your very well deservered award!!!
conor on March 5, 2007
Thanks Caroline and Feebee.
As I keep saying, it was supposed to be an encouraging post but I think I’ve put a ton of people off it for life!
roos on March 5, 2007
Nice to meet you too, Connor, I might meet you or your wife at the gaelscoil one morning.
Well done with the award!
conor on March 5, 2007
Thanks Roos. Ours is the loudmouth three year old in with Mairín!
Cormac Dunne on March 5, 2007
Congrats Conor- well deserved !
Cormac
The Swearing Lady on March 5, 2007
Conor Conor Conor
You were brilliant. We might have to invite yourself and Missus Conor on a golfing holiday or something, yourself and TSG got on that well.
Absolutely thrilled for you and your win.
O on March 6, 2007
Ah sure, Conor, congrats, a great post and a well deserved win! Glad you enjoyed meeting Sweary and TSG, he’s my brudder!
Had to check in late Sat. night (I am 7 hrs behind Ireland) and see who won what. Disappointed for Sweary but thrilled you won!
Congrats again!
Martin Dwyer on March 6, 2007
Delighted you won, I thought your piece was very moving (and it brought me back to my own (painless) snip about 20 years ago)
conor on March 6, 2007
It turns out that no-one noticed Mrs Conor was as pissed as me cos I was louder.
My parents would both have aneuryisms if I went on a golfing holiday. They light candles every morning hoping I’ll take up golf.
You’re all very welcome down for the Bandon Show, just bring your gaming console with you, we have a nice spot for it here.
conor on March 6, 2007
Thanks O and Martin.
The op clearly hasn’t affected my dance floor moves with their planted feet and swingy arms.
I’m only disappointed that Tony Manero-Raftery got all the glory.
Karen on March 5, 2007
Snort!
In bed by midnight my hole! You were talking to me and a few others around then and heading off for more dancing as far as I remember!
It was GOOD drunken waffling though! Congrats on the award, lovely to meet you and I hope the various relatives held on to the kids for a while today to give you a chance to recover!