Children, youth & media: AWARDS: Media awars winners praised (IRELAND)

Media awars winners praised

YOUNG students and aspiring journalists gathered at Collins Barracks in Dublin last Friday for the presentation of the 2007 'Let's Talk About Drugs' Media Awards.
The awards are organised by the Greater Blanchardstown Response to Drugs (GBRD) and Dublin radio station, Phantom 105.2, joined Northside People as this year's partners in the competition.
Now in its second year, 'Let's Talk About Drugs' encourages the public discussion of drug-related issues by inviting secondary school students and aspiring journalists to write or record a feature about drugs.
The two themes in this year's competition were: 'Cocaine – what's the harm?' and 'Drugs – time for new tactics?'.
At last week's presentation event, 13-year-old Miceala Murray (Templeogue) and 15-year-old Leanne Ryan (Tallaght) were awarded prizes in the Youth Print Category.
Mathew Culleton (Dublin 1) and Moira Burke (Dublin 17) were awarded prizes in the Adult Print Category.
The Youth Broadcast prize was won by Youghal Youth Project (East Cork) while St John Bosco Youth Club (Drimnagh) collected the GBRD Endeavour Award.

FULL ARTICLE AT http://www.dublinpeople.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2876&Itemid=49

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