Laura takes a bow
I was glad to have a chance on air this morning to congratulate Laura Haydon on this year's broadcast feature journalist award for her work on Sunday Sequence (and she was also the only female winner across the broadcast categories). Laura is a superb package-maker who produces authoritative reports for us on a weekly basis hat are extremely well polished. We're very lucky to have her on the team.
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Couldn't agree more Will
A photo would have helped us put a face to a lovely voice!
Nice and congrats to Laura.
Alan, funny you should say that. I asked Laura for a photograph from the awards and she obliged, but it was too big a file for the blog. Need to get it re-sized.
Congratulations to
I listened to Eilish Rooney on this mornings programme and for someone of her calibre she failed to acknowledge that the majority still favour academic selection in some shape or form, the Government carried out a parental survey and it was overwhelmingly in favour of academic selection and Martin McGuinness ignored it so he could dismantle the grammar schools, and then there was the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Newsline survey which also came out in favour of selection also, and coming from an area (Tiger’s Bay) of social depravation I am also in favour of academic selection because I have seen it working for the betterment of children from these area’s because there were volunteer educator’s who were prepared to educate parent and children alike so that they could benefit from the educational system and use it to it’s full potential, and the way I see it is that the parents in these area’s of social need also need to be educated as they have failed to understand the importance of academic selection and what implications it has on the future of their children.
The late Monsignor Denis Faul was a person who knew what significance education could have and the empowerment that it gave people to map out their future, personally and nationally, and he used it for the advancement of the Catholic community at large and he deserves credit for working the system to educate his flock, it is a shame that those in the state/protestant educational sector hadn’t the same vision that he had, if so the system would not be in the mess that it is in today, if only they had the same vision that he had.