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has scooped a major medi- cal journalism award, ahead of stiff competition from writers and broad- casters in the national media.
Claire Gallagher won the Young Irish Journalist of the Year award, winning a specially commissioned sculpture by leading silversmith Sea- mus Gill as well as a financial prize, at the seventh annual GlaxoSmithK- line Irish Medical Media Awards.
Gallagher won the award for her sensitive treatment of the controversy surrounding breast cancer screening services in Clare.
Announcing the win, chairman of the judging panel and MC, Dr John Bowman said she won the award “for her sensitive treatment of the contro- versy around breast screening serv- ices in Clare and for well-researched articles which provided her readers with all sides of the argument”.
This is the latest in a long line of awards for the newspaper, which is celebrating the third anniversary of its first edition this week.
The newspaper’s managing editor, Gerry Collison, paid tribute to Gal- lagher’s standard of journalism in the publication.
“Claire is an extremely dedicated and talented journalist. She constant- ly raises the bar in terms of journal- istic excellence with her work. We
have a very talented, hard-working staff of whom we are very proud,’ he said.