Examiner nets sports reporter award

Irish Examiner sports writer Ewan MacKenna has been named as Sports Reporter of the Year at the annual National Newspapers of Ireland awards ceremony in Dublin yesterday.

Ewan, who previously worked with the Sunday Tribune, was honoured for a three-part series he wrote on the important role of sports clubs in socially deprived parts of the country.

The citation for Ewan’s award said for a chosen few their craft came as a gift of nature with the Irish Examiner reporter “falling firmly into that category”.