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Katie Gallagher

Irish eyes on Cillian Murphy, Graham Norton and Derry Girls at the NTAs tonight

Cillian Murphy, Graham Norton, and Derry Girls are flying the flag for Ireland at the National Television Awards in the UK tonight.

The NTAs are back with the biggest stars of daytime and evening TV gathering to have their work recognised.

The ceremony will take place tonight at 8pm on ITV in London at Wembley's OVO Arena, hosted by The Masked Singer UK star Joel Dommett.

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And Irish eyes will be on Cork natives Murphy and Norton as well as the cast and crew of hit Irish series Derry Girls who are amongst the nominees in a number of categories.

Murphy is nominated for Best Drama Performance for his role as Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders.

The hit crime series, which wrapped up its sixth and final TV series earlier this year, is also shortlisted for Best Returning Drama.

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Popular chat show presenter Norton has once again been nominated for Best TV Presenter. His long-running Graham Norton Show is also nominated for the Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award.

Derry Girls is shortlisted for Best Comedy.

Bridgerton, which also stars Derry Girls Nicola Coughlan, is nominated in the Returning Drama category.

Elsewhere Irish chaser Darragh Ennis will be hoping for a gong as Beat the Chasers battles it out for Best Quiz Game Show, whilst the original show The Chase is also up for best Daytime show.

The awards are voted for by the public.

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