Irish Examiner’s big win

THE Irish Examiner was the big winner when the Agricultural Journalism Awards 2004, organised by the Guild of Agricultural Journalists of Ireland, were presented last week.

Chief business correspondent Brian O’Mahony and agribusiness correspondent Ray Ryan received the overall award, and John Behan’s magnificent bronze sculpture, The Bull, associated with these prestigious awards since 1976.

Their outstanding coverage in the Irish Examiner of the Dairygold Co-op redundancy and restructuring programme was the unanimous choice of the awards judges chaired by Brid Rodgers, Northern Ireland’s ex-Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development.