Next Wednesday, March 26th , Gay Byrne, Chairman of the Road Safety Authority, will attend a ceremony at NUI Galway to honour Donna Ferguson, the young Belleek student journalist who tragically lost her life on the roads in December 2006.
Mr Byrne will deliver the Inaugural Address for the presentation of the Donna Ferguson Memorial Award which will take place in the Siobhan McKenna Theatre in the Arts Millennium building at 2pm.
Gerry and Mary Ferguson will present the Award to John Hogan who achieved the highest mark in the broadcast module of the MA Journalism course in 2006. John Hogan is currently working as a journalist in The Limerick Leader.
Gay Byrne’s address to an audience including Donna’s family and friends, current students of the MA in Journalism, NUI Galway staff and local journalists, will be followed by a question and answer session.