It is important to mark excellence, it is important to honour hard work and endeavour and creativity, so the competition is good […] it makes for a real reward for the hard work

It's very important to recognise the efforts that people are putting in and to market with an award ceremony like this. It really illustrates to everybody how important the activity is and I think people who put the work in deserve the credit and deserve the awards.

I think we were shocked and delighted and it's just such an honour because I think the group that we were shortlisted with were really topnotch so that just made the win even more special for us.

We're completely blown out of the water, with the awards this year it's just great that we're still ahead of the curve. It means everything for Hotel Doolin. This award just back everything up

It was a big surprise for us. We've been working really hard in this space, but to be acknowledged in this particular area is a real honour for us because it's a real group effort in what we're doing at daa.

Oh, it's absolutely! Well, we're ecstatic. First submission and first win, super excited!

For us, we felt like we were a smaller company although we're a large company, we probably didn't feel like we started that. So we came with two people tonight we should have come with 10!

Well it's huge for a small company that developed in Cork and grew from Cork since 2007, so it's amazing to win it. So delighted.