UCD student wins journalism award

UNIVERSITY College Dublin (UCD) student Sorcha Nic Mhathuna was announced winner of the Irish Examiner-sponsored Student Journalist of the Year last night.

The Oxygen Student Media Awards, or Smedias as they have become popularly known, took place at a function in Dublin’s Spirit nightclub.

Awards were given in 25 categories, covering newspapers, radio programmes, television documentaries and websites produced by student journalists in the last 12 months.