Irish Equity congratulates Enda Oates in winning his IFTA last for best male performer in a soap. Enda is an stage, film, and television actor who has received acclaim for his stagework, but is also well known to Irish television audiences as the Reverend George Black in the long-running series Glenroe for RTÉ, and as Barreller Casey in the sitcom Upwardly Mobile as well as for his role in Death of a Superhero, Veronica Guerin and Ordinary Decent Criminal.