Amble win Choice Music Prize Song of the Year

Amble have won the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Song of the Year award for their track 'Schoolyard Days'.

The news was announced live on The Tracy Clifford Show, hours before the main event in Vicar Street.

The trio described this year's win, as well as nominations to four categories as a "huge honour".

"There's a lot of people taking the stage tonight for the awards gig, people we looked up to for years," the band's guitarist and vocalist Oisín McCaffrey told RTÉ.

"I was in college in Galway listening to those people five or six years ago now - and now to share the stage with them is surreal, genuinely, and we're very, very grateful for the whole thing."

Amble's mandolin and bouzouki player Ross McNerney said he attended the Choice Music Prize show "twice as a punter".

"And I just came as a punter, as a music fan, and to be here in 2026 getting to play on the stage, it's something I never thought of then. So, this is a celebration of Irish music, and we're just proud to be a part of that" he added.

Amble were formed in 2022 after lead vocalist and guitarist Robbie Cunnigham, alongside McNerney and McCaffrey, quit their daily jobs.

The trio will have their biggest headline show to date at St Anne's Park on May 29. They will also support Dermot Kennedy around Europe, and Ed Sheeran in North America.

Elsewhere, alongside Aaron Rowe, they will be special guests at Dermot Kennedy's shows at the Aviva Stadium on July 11 and 12.

Earlier this week, Amble released their ten-track live album, Live from Dublin II, alongside a short documentary, Amble: Three Nights in Dublin, on YouTube.

Watch the documentary below: