 Rigsy has worked on many projects outside of the BBC, hosting the Choice Music Prize (Ireland's answer to the Mercury Music Prize) in Dublin twice (in 2007 and 2008) before judging the same award in 2009 and 2012.In early 2007 he was nominated in the media personality category at the Northern Ireland Fate Awards.As a print journalist, Rigsy worked alongside Colin Murray at "Blank Magazine" and "BBM" at the end of the 1990s, before contributing to the "NME" as Northern Ireland correspondent for two years.