Trinity students top of the class at Smedias

DCU student Cormac O’Brien has been named the Journalist of the Year in the national press category at the 2011 Student Media Awards.

Judges hailed Mr O’Brien as a “writer with real flair”, and said he was a deserved recipient of the Irish Examiner-sponsored award.

Mr O’Brien won for an investigative story published in the Gay Community News.