Paul Cullen of The Irish Times has won a Justice Media Award for his book on the Flood Tribunal, With a Little Help from my Friends, writes Carol Coulter. He won the award in the book category of the Law Society's annual Justice Media Awards.
The overall award went to Margaret Rossiter, a columnist with the Nationalist newspaper in Clonmel, for a series on juvenile crime and sentencing policy.
The winner in the daily newspaper category was Vincent Power of the Evening Echo, and Barry O'Halloran of Business and Finance won the magazine category.
The TV award went to RTE's Angela Daly and Sinead McCarthy for their Prime Time report on asylum seekers who come to Ireland to have their babies and claim citizenship.