The Trinity College student newspaper, Trinity News, took most of the honours at the first Oxygen national Student Media Awards ("Smedias"), picking up six major prizes.
The college paper, Ireland's oldest student journal, won Newspaper of the Year and Best Non-Funded Publication, and its editor, Ruadhan MacCormaic, took home the Smedia for Editor of the Year as well as for Outstanding Contribution to Campus Media.
The paper's features writer, Jean O'Mahony, was named Journalist of the Year and photo editor Ian Russell was selected by Dermot O'Shea, Photographic Editor of The Irish Times, as News Photographer of the Year.
The awards, hosted by journalist Brendan O'Connor at Vicar Street, Dublin, last night, were organised by the youth and student website, Oxygen.
Website of the Year was won by SIN (Student Information Network), NUI Galway's Student Union website.
The award for Best Publication Layout and Society Publication of the Year went to Ufouria, the students' union publication of the University of Ulster, distributed across four campuses in Northern Ireland.
Other awards among the 18 categories included Radio Station of the Year, which went to Cork Campus Radio's Kieran Hurley, and Students Sports Writer of the Year, judged by broadcaster Eamon Dunphy, which went to DCU College View's Paul Keane.
