Irish Examiner’s Michael Clifford is Journalist of the Year

Irish Examiner journalist Michael Clifford has scooped two awards, picking up the gong for Story of the Year and Journalist of the Year at the Tonight With Vincent Browne Political Awards 2014.

Mr Clifford won the honours for his outstanding coverage of the garda whistleblowers’ scandal and its epic fallout, including the resignation of garda commissioner Martin Callinan and justice minister Alan Shatter, as well as thought-provoking articles on the Cooke report examining alleged bugging of the Garda Ombudsman’s Office.

Irish Examiner editor Tim Vaughan described Mr Clifford as a “tenacious journalist” a “singular talent” and a “more than worthy winner” of the awards.