Big wins for CMAT and Amble at Choice Music Prize awards 

The winners were announced last night 

The singer behind hits like Stay For Something and I wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby! Received the award at last night’s RTÉ Choice Music Awards. Picture: Maxwell's

Meath's CMAT has won the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2025 for her third studio album, Euro-Country.

Originally released last August, it earned the singer from Dunshaughlin a cheque for €10,000 from the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) and the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA).

The singer behind hits like Stay For Something and I wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby! received the award at last night’s RTÉ Choice Music Awards.

Barry Devlin from Horslips made the announcement in Vicar St.

CMAT, who previously won the Choice Music Album of the Year prize in 2022 for her debut album If My Wife New I'd Be Dead, also won this year’s Irish Artist of the Year at the event.

Hosted by RTÉ 2FM’s Tracy Clifford, the award ceremony took place live in Vicar St and was broadcast live on 2FM with Beta Da Silva, and included performances from six of the nominated artists.

Amble were awarded the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Song of the Year for their song Schoolyard Days.

The song was selected from a shortlist of 10 songs by public vote (Ireland only), via the RTÉ 2FM and Choice Music Prize websites.

Irish folk group Amble also won Breakthrough Irish Artist of the Year presented by DJ Próví of KNEECAP, who used the event to remind people how important it was for Irish bands to draw attention to genocide around the world.

Amble, named in 2024 as RTÉ 2FM’s rising stars and made up of two former teachers and a former data scientist, dedicated their award to their road crew and manager. Last night’s award is the latest highlight for the band, who clocked up over 100m streams after releasing sebut album Reverie last May and played three sold-out shows in the 3Arena in December.

Louise Duffy, RTÉ Radio 1 welcomed Barry Devlin, Eamon Carr and Jim Lockhart to the stage to collect Horslips’ award for the Classic Irish Album for their 1973 LP The Táin.

The RTÉ Choice Music Prize, established in 2005, recognises the best of Irish recorded music.