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Causeway And Dingle School Students Win National Journalism Awards

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Kate Ni Dhubhain 1st place Winner of the News category, Tomas O hUallachain, Overall Winner and Ciara Ni Bhruic 2nd place Winner News Category all from Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, An Daingean at the NewsBrands Ireland Press Pass Awards. Picture Colm Mahady / Fennells

KERRY students have won awards in a national competition which develops literacy and critical thinking skills and leads students to analyse the society they live in.

The winners of the NewsBrands Ireland’s Press Pass programme, were announced in Dublin today and out of the thousands of entries, Tomás Ó hUallacháin of Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, An Daingean, was chosen as the overall winner.

His schoolmates also won prizes. In the News category, Kate Ní Dhubháin was first and Ciara Ní Bhruic was second.

The Kerry winners didn’t end there as the Photojournalism category was won by Jack Farrell ofCauseway Comprehensive School.

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In 2016, 8,000 Transition Year students took part in the NewsBrands Ireland Press Pass initiative. At today’s Press Pass Awards, 16 of those students were awarded for their original journalism, created as part of the Newspapers-in-Education programme.

Finian McGrath T.D., Minister for State with special responsibility for Disabilities attended the awards and presented students with their awards.

The audience, made up of nominated students, their teachers and families also heard from Michael Clifford of the Irish Examiner, who was the NewsBrands Ireland Journalist of the Year 2016.

Since the Press Pass programme launched five years ago, approximately 70,000 students have benefited from it. The programme has had the full support of the  Department of Education since it began. It seeks to improve literacy and critical thinking skills while helping students to develop a deeper understanding of news media and how it communicates about the world around them.

Participating schools receive newspapers and a specially created workbook free of charge. Students are encouraged to engage with the newspapers in the classroom, to analyse them and then to create their own original journalism, the best of which was entered into a national competition.

The winners were selected by a panel of newspaper editors and journalists, chaired by Professor John Horgan, the former Press Ombudsman.

Overall winner
Tomás Ó hUallacháin (Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, An Daingean)

Features
1st – Caitríona Ní Chonaill (Coláiste Ghobnatan, Baile Mhic Ire)
2nd – Mark O’Donnell (St Columbas Comprehensive, Glenties)
3rd – Natasha Holmes (Presentation Secondary School, Clonmel)

Opinion
1st – Síofra O’Dwyer (Scoil Mhuire, Buncrana)
2nd – Aoife Foley (St Mary’s Secondary School, Macroom)
3rd – Ciara Tomlinson (Jesus and Mary College, Goatstown)

News
1st – Kate Ní Dhubháin (Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, An Daingean)
2nd – Ciara Ní Bhruic (Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne, An Daingean)
3rd – Niamh O’Dowd (FCJ Secondary School, Bunclody)

Sport
1st – Emma McGoey (Mean Scoil Mhuire, Longford)
2nd – Sorcha Nic an tSionnaigh (Laurel Hill Coláiste FCJ, Limerick)
3rd – Colm Breslin (Pobalscoil na Tríonóide, Youghal)

Photojournalism
1st – Jack Farrell (Causeway Comprehensive School)
2nd – Carley Mannion (Coláiste Iognáid, Galway)
3rd – Clodagh O’Leary (FCJ Secondary School, Bunclody)

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Former Kerryman Editor Appointed Professor Of Journalism At UL

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UNIVERSITY of Limerick has appointed former editor of The Kerryman and Managing Director of The Irish Daily Star, Ger Colleran, as Adjunct Professor of Journalism.

Mr Colleran lived in Ballymac when he was editor of The Kerryman newspaper from 1994 to 1999. He then moved to Dublin to become editor of The Star and later Managing Editor.

He is a graduate of University of Limerick where he received an MBA in 1993 and Harvard Business School in Boston. He is currently in his second year of law studies at Kings Inns.

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A TV3 presenter and newspaper columnist, Mr Colleran played a central role in the political negotiations on the new Defamation Act. He will give master classes to UL’s Journalism and New Media students as part of his new role.

“The one thing young student journalists need to set aside is the cloud of fear that has hit the media industry over the past 10-15 years because of the massive disruption caused by digital. Technology is merely a delivery vehicle; the basic human demand for stories doesn’t change at all,” he said.

“Whether it’s stone tablets from Mount Sinai; gossip at the end of the medieval village; print; telephone; television or digital; it is immaterial. People are still interested in stories about people and the world around them. The delivery vehicles may alter, but there are certain basic standards that need to be upheld: accuracy and integrity; and the need to challenge and question. That sort of rigour needs to be encouraged,” Mr Colleran continued.

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“I would encourage students to be platform agnostic while constantly keeping an eye on the prize and the prize is a more decent, open, democratic living society, unafraid of vested interests, power centres and elites,” he added.

Speaking about his new appointment Mr Colleran, whose daughter is also a UL graduate, said he had “decades’-long admiration for the University of Limerick. I completed an MBA there and I have an association with the college through family”.

 

RTE presenter Bryan Dobson is a current Adjunct Professor of Broadcast Journalism at UL. Previous Adjunct Professors of Journalism include former Irish Times Editor Geraldine Kennedy and Sunday Times journalist Justine McCarthy.