GAA writers’ Lifetime awards

THREE doyens of GAA writing, with over 130 years of service behind them, were honoured last night as the Gaelic Writers’ Association announced their inaugural Hall of Fame winners at a function in the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel in Dublin.

This newspaper’s Jim O’Sullivan has an astonishing 47 years behind him with the Cork Examiner, and, now Irish Examiner, and he was joined in receiving Lifetime Achievement awards by fellow veterans Paddy Downey (Irish Times) and Peadar O’Brien (The Irish Press and the Irish Sun).

The GWA was revived last year and is the organisation that represents full-time GAA journalists in print and broadcast media.