Award for Irish Examiner series on ‘lost children’

THE Irish Examiner has taken one of the top honours in the annual Law Society awards for journalism.

Reporter Noel Baker was joint winner of the daily national newspaper category for his series on children in the criminal justice system which ran over four days earlier this year.

Describing the series as“superbly researched”, the judging panel said it went behind the scenes at the Children’s Court and the country’s juvenile reform institutions and raised serious questions about society’s “lost children”.