Apparently, the South William Street VVIP Awards are a real thing. They’re like, totally a joke, but they actually happen in a really ironic way.
Like every aspect of Irish life (RTE, the Dáil, South William Street itself) it’s all very incestuous, and Fade Street (the longest running corporate advertisement ever on Irish telly?) forces its way into numerous categories.
Of course, these things don’t really work in a city like Dublin because Dublin is, in case you hadn’t noticed, tiny.
The nominations for the VVIP awards can be read over here. Dáil hopefulls (South William Street nearly had a man on the inside!), models and the like all feature.
To give you a sample:
Best Haircut
Dylan Haskins
Cici Cavanagh
Joey Kavanagh
Paul Walsh
Sinead Fields
Alex Murphy
Catriona Grimes
Cara Mulcahy
Joanne McNally
Fiona Cullen
VVIP of the year.
Best DJ who cant DJ.
Best venue in administration / receivership / liquidation
Best Award Ceremony That Isn’t This Award Ceremony
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ride of the Year
Click on the book for more.
Click on the book for more.
Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
I am Jack’s raging bile duct.
There are a few prize hair cuts missing from that list.
The national passion for social incest continues unabated.
For anyone without a Facebook:
The South William Street VVIP Awards 2011.
Thursday April 21st at ALT
Best Venue that has been in Receivership/ Examinership / Administration/ Liquidation
Button Factory
Sin é
Dragon
George
Dandelion
Renards
Ocean Bar
Eamon Dorans
Spy
Thomas Reads
Ron Blacks
Cafe En Seine
Residence
*The Anthony Remedy Award For Most Annoying Social Media User*
Rosemary McCabe
Faye Dinsmore
Buzz O Neill
Afterdark.ie
Damien Mulley
Cici Cavanagh
Joe Macken (Jo Burger and Crackbird)
Pat O’Mahony
David Cochrane
Mr Hotspots
Midnite events
Darragh Doyle
Best Newcomer
Paul Walsh
Nadia El Ferdaoussi
Faye Dinsmore
Louise Johnston
Andrew Bannister
Shane Gillen
Colin Perkins
Eimear Fitzmaurice
Cici Cavanagh
Elaine Buckley
Mikey Robinson / Cyrus
Keeva Guilfoyle
Best Haircut……..
Dylan Haskins
Cici Cavanagh
Joey Kavanagh
Paul Walsh
Sinead Fields
Alex Murphy
Catriona Grimes
Cara Mulcahy
Joanne McNally
Fiona Cullen
Dubious Club Night/ Venue / Promotion Name.
Vodka Island @ The Edge
Alchemy
Too Many Cooks @ The Kitchen
Dub War @ The Kitchen
Lost Society
Vanilla
Freaks on Fridays (takes place on Saturday) @ TRIPOD
Chewn @ POD
Party Animal @ ALT
PRhomo @ Dragon
Signature Group Presents @ The Palace…..
Finger Bang Ball @ Twisted Pepper
Cougars
VVIP of the year.
Best DJ who cant DJ.
Best venue in administration / receivership / liquidation
Best Award Ceremony That Isn’t This Award Ceremony
Lifetime Achievement Award
Ride of the Year
Special Award – Humanitarian Social Networker Of The Year.
Expect red carpet, paparazzi, range rovers, champagne, live performance, modern dance, midgets and more……
Nominees out next week!
Thursday April 21st at ALT from 6pm.
Be there!
Words cannot describe the horror: having had the misfortune to view photos of this parade of self-important degenerates, those outrages against taste and decency are now forever burned into my retina – what has been seen cannot be unseen.
Is this what Dublin must make do with to replace the cultural void left by the closure of the Lighthouse cinema?
As a nation, our biggest regret of 2011 so far should be not having seized the chance to take out all this assorted trash in one fell swoop.
Should these repugnant miscreants manage to collectively drag their sorry carcasses through another year, I encourage all right-minded people of Dublin to be sure not to make the same mistake twice, of letting such an opportunity for retribution go to waste.
Ireland deserves better.
Ireland has what Ireland deserves. A small minded parochial incestuous little country will, by it’s nature, produce small minded parochial celebs, catholics, politicians, cyclists and anything else you could mention.
I am sorry but I do not agree with this sentiment.
To blindly accept that such is our lot betrays a tone of resignation I find disheartening, not to mention a laziness and lack of imagination. It worries me that it is exactly this kind of acrid pessimism that has nurtured and perpetuated the idea of the ‘small minded parochial incestuous little country’ of which you speak, and which you seem to believe yourself to be a part of.
Perhaps a change of perspective is what’s needed. I suppose though this can be difficult when times are tough.
Still, when faced with the horrors of VVIP and its miserable ilk, rather than accept defeat at the hands of the bad taste, delusions and mistakes of a minority, should we not instead be spurred on to try even harder to rise above such filth and mediocrity, to strive for more?
Even if one feels they can’t be better, shouldn’t one at least try, whether they are one person or an entire country?
To overcome successfully one first needs a realistic view of what needs to be overcome. The “aw sure it’s still a great little country” attitude and the “aw well lets look on the bright side” is what has the country in the mess it is. One voter I met dismissed the incompetence and greed of Bertie and his fellow political burglar’s by saying “sure we’d all to the same if we were in”. He had the agreement of all in his company.
Ireland started down the road to the present incestuous parochial little village it is in 1922.
The problem in Ireland does not involve a minority. It spills from the top like melting wax set in motion by the toxic flame on a big fat rotten candle. It gets cooler and less likely to burn the fingers the nearer it gets to the bottom but it covers everybody.
The apathy of the voters is caused by the self serving politicians who get elected to power thanks to that very same apathy.
The real stomach acid eating away at any cure for Ireland’s ills is the blind refusal to face the fact that swallowing more hope is no substitute for surgery. At this stage it’s not cramps it’s cancer.
We need to change the national slogan to “sure if we were deh bleedin’ French we’d be out on the streets”. If I hear that one more time I’m going to start printing T shirts.
Our National anthem should be changed as well paint a better picture of how the Irish run Ireland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q5uiJ7lQrw&NR=1
It might cheer up the people waving goodbye in the airport and the people trying to stretch over stretched pay packets even further. Seanie Fitzpatrick, Ivor Callelly Bertie and assorted resident non resident won’t like it of course.
You’re right about needing to change the National Anthem, the current one is terrible.