A south Sligo woman was among the winners at Sunday night’s Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) awards ceremony.
Dearbhla Walsh, from Tubbercurry, won the award in the drama section for director of Bad Sisters.
Sunday night’s IFTA Awards were held at a gala event in Dublin.
Dearbhla is an award-winning director who has worked on a variety of drama series including Tales from the Loop, EastEnders, Shameless, Penny Dreadful, The Tudors and The Handmaid’s Tale
She won the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a miniseries, movie or dramatic Special for Little Dorrit.
She directed Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot, starring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench, a television film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel of the same name.
She has also directed several art/dance films, funded by the Arts Council, in collaboration with Fearghus Ó Conchúir including Match and I’m Roger Casement.
Walsh has been nominated for the Irish Film and Television Awards eleven times and won three previously for directing in 2011, 2018 and 2020.
