MARCH 2020 PAGE 33 TRAVEL WRITER AWARDS 2020


Gerry O’Hare young jounralist award winer Ste- phen Evans of the Herald with Eoghan Corry and category sponsor Maria Golpe of Camino Ways,


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Oisin Feeney represnting Janet Newenham Dig- ital Media award winner with Eoghan Corry and category sponsor Paul Hackett of Clickandgo,


Eoghan Corry, Broadcast winner Mary Fanning of RTE Nationwide and category sponsor Char- lotte Brenner. of TUI,


sabel Conway was presented with the Travel Extra Jour- nalist of the Year Award at a


Isabel Conway is writer of year


ceremony held to coincide with the annual Holiday World Show. Nine other winners, each for different travel categories, were announced at an awards dinner in Thomas Prior House, Ballsbridge which was attended by the cream of Irish travel and tourism writers and broadcasters.


The event was sponsored by the Spanish Tourism Office and Lan- zarote Tourist Board. The award winners were chosen by a distin- guished panel of senior Irish jour- nalists. This year saw a huge increase in


Eoghan Corry, Pol O Conghaile of the Irish Independent and category sponsor Helen Brady of Failte Ireland,


the number of submissions from previous years, displaying the crea- tivity and continuing innovation of travel and tourism journalism in Ireland.


The Gerry O’Hare Best New-


Eoghan Corry, Northern Ireland winner Jamie Ball and category sponsor Fiona Cunningham of TourismNI,


comer Journalist - sponsored by CaminoWays.com: Stephen Evans Best Digital Media - sponsored by ClickandGo: Janet Newenham Best Broadcasting - sponsored by TUI: RTÉ Nationwide – Mary Fan-


Travel wirter of the year Isabel Conway with Eoghan Corry, editor of Travel Extra and category sponsors Angel Vazquez of Lanza- rote Tourism and Ruben Lopez Director of the Spanish Tourist Board office in Dublin,


ning and Mary Kennedy


Best Northern Ireland - spon- sored by Tourism Northern Ireland: Jamie Ball


Home market (Ireland) story - sponsored by Fáilte Ireland: Pól O Conghaile


Best Adventure - sponsored by


UWalk.ie & Salzburgerland State Board of Tourism: Yvonne Gordon


Best Skiing - sponsored by Top-


flight & Gastein Tourist Board Austria:


Catherine Murphy


Best Short Haul - sponsored by Sunway:


Pól O Conghaile Best Long Haul - sponsored by Cassidy Travel: Isabel Conway Previous winners of the over- all award were: 1986 Isabel Con- way, 2002 Cleo Murphy, 2004-5 Pól Ó Conghaile, 2006 Kathryn Thomas, 2007 Muriel Bolger, 2008 Philip Nolan, 2009 Pól Ó Conghaile, 2010 Mark Evans, 2011 Philip Nolan 2012 Isabel Conway 2013 Sue Morris, 2014- 15 Pól Ó Conghaile, 2016 Isabel Conway, 2017 Yvonne Gordon, 2018 Mal Rogers, 2019 Pol O Conghaile, 2020 Isabel Conway


Category sponsor Yvonne Rosenstatter of Tourism Salzburg. Pol O Conghaile representing adventure winner Yvonne Gordon,


Eoghan Corry, ski winner Catherine Murphyand category sponsor Michelle Anderson of Topflight,


Eoghan Corry, long haul category winner Isabel Conway travel writer and category sponsor John Spollen of Cassidy Travel President of the ITAA,


Winners of the Travel Extra Writer Awards Jamie Ball, Stephen Evans, Pol O Conghaile, Oisin feeney representing Janet Newenham, Eoghan Corry editor of Travel Extra, Ruben Lopez Director of the Spanish Tourist Board office in Dublin (front row) isabel Conway overall winnner, mary fanning and Catherine Murphy,


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