Keith Duggan from Ballyshannon has been acclaimed Sports Journalist of the Year in the national Media Awards which were presented at a glittering function in Trinity College, Dublin.

Keith, son of Carl and Mary Duggan, Cornhill, Ballyshannon, beat off stiff competition to clinch the award for his story in the Irish Times of how the deaths of two Tyrone footballers seven years apart affected the team.

Keith, who now lives in Galway, is acknowledged as one of Ireland’s most consistently brilliant sports writers.

The award for overall journalist of the year went to Shane Ross and Nick Webb for their expose in the Sunday Independent of overspending in FAS.

There were 14 winners and 12 categories adjudicated by a panel of 32 judges including the Donegal Post’s own Paddy Clancy and Glenties’ MacGill Summer School founder and director Dr Joe Mulholland who has a home at St John’s Point.