Horgan won the 2008 British Comedy Award for Best TV Actress for "Pulling", while the show's 2009 hour-long final episode won the British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Drama. A seven-time BAFTA TV Award nominee, she won the 2016 BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Writer for "Catastrophe" (with Rob Delaney), and was nominated for the 2016 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. Horgan has also won five Irish Film and Television Awards in both acting and writing for her work on "Catastrophe".