Steve Bennett is the winner of this year's Irish Comedian of the Year final.

Irish comedian Bennett, who plays music and also does comic illustrations, bagged the prize in the final which took place as part of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival in Galway.

Second place went to Ryan Cullan and third place went to Jim Elliot.

The other finalists were Stephen Ryan, Aindrias De Staic, Aideen McQueen, Richard Ronaldson, Peter Flanagan, Emmanuel Idama and Donal Vaughan.