Most of these I saw for the first time when I finally got to me room, after breakfast, clutching my award and enjoying the morning sun. They were great appreciated.

   Maidhci “Comhghairdeas! Fairplay duit. #iba10″

   CurlyDena “so pleased for @eolai winning Best Specialist Blog. lovely blog, lovely man. congrats! #iba10″

   DarraghDoyle “We have @eolai making an emotional speech on stage. Nicely put, sir #iba10″

   ElliotTucker “Congrats @eolai! Super fab!”

   nessymon “congrats sir”

   AnaRakovac “Yeeeeeaaaaah! Well done!”

   EtsyIreland “Congratulations to @eolai who won Best Specialist Blog at #iba10″

   EmilyAM “Well done @eolai #iba10″

   KieranMurphy “Congrats to @TrustTommy @9BeanRow & @eolai !!! @icedcoffee Will we see pics later?”

   Chiarraigrrl “Congrats @eolai! Great stuff! #iba10″

   HangarQueen “Well played sir.Well played”

   Debz “congrats on the award and hoping for mad sales for ya! <3"

   DeclanDeBarra “well done!”

   paysan “Congrats on the award Eolai, well deserved…”

   MarkhamNolan “congrats on the award!”

   Nialler9 “Well deserved to @eolai @choiceprize @culchie @Suzieb @beautie @redmum @panti aNd everyone else for their total wins.”

   ChasTaylor “Congratulations on the award!”

   PrimalSneeze “I offer my conblogulations, sir.”

   Eske “Hey “Specialist” @eolai congrats on you Irish Blog award”

   LozzieCousins “Congrats on your win - I’m really, really pleased for you. Hope you sold loads of paintings, too!”

   Lozzcap “Huge congratulations to Dublin-based artist and blogger @Eolai, who won Best Specialist Blog at the Irish Blog Awards last night. Monty!”

   mwkiley “Does that mean you won yer category? YAY!! Sell lots of paintings, too? Bliss & congratulations!”

   StanCarey “Great to meet you at the #IBA10, and to see your paintings at full size & in 4-D. Congrats again on a well-deserved award!”

   Fiona_McCann “Congrats on the win mr! Sorry I missed the bloggies - up to me tonsils in work work work, alas. Hope ye had fun.”

   ICanHasCook “Had so much fun last night thanks to @dailyspud @kdamo @schlafshane @eolai @sabrinadent @handelaar @icedcoffee @slkav @darraghdoyle”

   ConorOSullivan “#iba10 Winner of @iQContent sponsored specialist award - bicyclistic.com Congratulations @eolai from all at IQ”

   MollyHicks “a far more pleasant pursuit - and congrats on award at iba, well deserved :-)”

   kala59 “well done you #iba10″

   SwearyLady “Is everyone else happy that @Eolai won? I am.”

   SeamusKeleher “@SwearyLady Is everyone else happy that @Eolai won? I am. - same here, congrats to him, bought a painting of his as well :)”

   orlaithf “Congratulations. You must be delirah”

   ElaineEdwards “Hi - I’ve just learned you won a blog award. Well done, well deserved. Sounds like a good night. Congrats - hope you enjoyed it.”

   JBBC “congratulations on the award..I was up against stiff competition with you in the category!”

   iQContent “RT @ConorOSullivan: #iba10 Winner of @iQContent sponsored specialist award - http://bicyclistic.com Congratulations @eolai from all at IQ!”

   nmcgivney “@ccrossan myself and @Eolai watched the sun come up over scrambled eggs. we were beautiful, man.”

   MySpyder Web “Congrats! Now seatblet that in!”

   John_McGuirk “Congratulations. An eminently deserved award.”

   siobhanmchugh82 “deadly! Hope it’s well stuck on!”

   Klaraflame “Thanks for the link in your post. Great pic of the sun coming through the award.”

   Dannie O’Brien “Meant to say many congrats on the win. I actually read your blog!! ;-)”

   9BeanRow “it was lovely to meet you at #iba10 Had a lovely browse through your paintings. Well done again on the award.”

   NiceDayDesigns “what a beautiful and heartfelt response, well done again on your win!!”

Manuel Estimulo - Hola! Good times. I love the tradition of picking up a year, or even 2 years, from where we left off. Already looking forward to the next time.

Sweary - I was celebrating all right, just very quietly and pervily. I think you were beside me at the time.

Lisamareedom - What a great privilege for me even if it does feel invasive of me to go into your kitchen. Thank you, and well done to you.

Lozzie - Long, rambling and repetitive? Thanks very much, though I’m hoping Bicyclistic will return to the shorter posts quite soon.

Alastair - Thank you sir. I’m certain I’d've not eaten anything remotely substantial were it not for your efforts. And then where I would be come sunrise?

Stan - Thank you, especially for making the effort to find me. When I display paintings I have a tendency to withdraw so would never meet anybody if it were not for their efforts.

Peggy Murray - Thank you very much. It really is a lot of fun being in that short list, that feeling of involvement, inclusion. I hop you enjoyed it and best of luck for future years.

Manuel - Thank you Mister. You know when somebody is right there that you don’t talk to them because you can any minute because, well, they’re right there? And then they’re not there. It was that kind of night.

Amy - Thank you very much. I’m not really sure what I said in my speech, or what I meant to say. It was practically sunrise when you went up in that lift (where did I put that photo?) Good times.

McAWilliams - Thanks a million John. Yes, one of those nights where with all the criss-crossing I assumed I’d finally bump into everyone properly, but when the music stopped it was the next day and time for breakfast. Without the set up of the paintings on Saturday, and the take down on Sunday, I surely would have enjoyed more times with people. You looked perfect with coffin.

Sean - Thank you. Much appreciated, and welcome to what is normally a very quiet place.

Savannah - Oh I’ve milked the posts sugar - there was so much to cover - and I believe you did leave congrats on one of the other posts either here or somewhere else. But thank you, and thank you.