Student wins EU translation award

A 17-YEAR-OLD student from Tory island off Donegal won a prize in an EU-wide translation competition.

Micheál Mag Fhionntaigh, who is a Leaving Cert student in Coláiste Phobail Cholmcille on Tory, was one of 1,500 students from all over the EU to enter the competition.

The judging panel made up of some of the EU’s professional translators chose his translation from English into Irish of an article on sustainable tourism as the best entrant from Ireland.