DCU student wins PPAI award
Tuesday 12 December 2006

Gerry Daly, Chairman of the PPAI, pictured with Eoin Hahessy and Deirdre O'Kane, MC

The Periodical Publishers Association of Ireland (PPAI) Awards took place on Thursday 7 December 2006. The PPAI confers the awards on magazine publishers, editors and designers annually. Eoin Hahessy, a student from the MA in Journalism, DCU, won the Magazine Student Writer Award for an article that was published in Village Magazine. Eoin wrote about suicide, and specifically on Ireland's high rate of suicide in the 15-25 age group.

The PPAI Awards presentation has become a major media event attended by the entire Irish magazine industry and are a real badge of honour for the winners. The Awards are open to all Irish magazine publishers, not just PPAI members, and as such they represent the accolade of the entire industry.

The premier award went to Norah Casey of Harmonia which publishes Irish Tatler, Woman’s Way, U Magazine, Food and Wine and Eat Out, as well as a range of contract titles including Cara, Fresh, Dundrum Magazine and Dublin Buzz. Norah Casey is a member of the DCU board of trustees.