Teachers Brenda Cullen and Lorcan Byrne can take a bow. Cullen, a teacher at the Graduate School of Business at UCD, is overall winner in the third Irish Marketing Teachers' Association Case Study competition, while Byrne of the Catholic University School on Leeson Street, Dublin, was one of the winners in the Martin Healy Short Story Award this year.
Cullen, whose case study focuses on the Irish Biscuits ccompany, joined UCD in 1990 after a career in marketing/management in a number of consumer goods companies.
She teaches marketing management courses on a number of programmes at UCD. The competition is run by the Irish Marketing Teachers Association (IMTA) in association with the Marketing Institute.
Byrne, who teaches English and French at CUS, says his story, Man in the Moon, is about a young boy and the relationship he has with his grandfather who comes to stay. The story is set around 1969 when Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon, hence the name.
Byrne won second prize at the Scriobh Literary Festival in Sligo recently. First prize went to Howard Wright from Co Armagh for his short story, .
The Martin Healy Short Story Award is held in memory of a promising Sligo writer who was on the brink of publishing his first collection when he died. The prize fund is £1,300.
Stories must be unpublished, typed and up to 3,000 words. Application forms will be available in libraries, arts centres, through arts officers and writers groups or from the Model Arts Centre, The Mall, Sligo in the new year. Closing date is Tuesday, July 20th.
