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THREE Mail journalists scooped awards at the Newsbrands Ireland National Journalism Awards last week.

Irish Mail on Sunday’s Political Editor John Lee was named Political Journalist of the Year while his colleague Michael O’Farrell won Investigative Journalist of the Year.

Irish Daily Mail Chief Correspondent Catherine Fegan, who also writes for this newspaper, picked up Feature Writer of the Year award before being named Journalist of the Year at the ceremony in Dublin’s Mansion House.

Seven other Mail writers were also shortlisted for awards.

MICHAEL O’FARRELL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR CATHERINE FEGAN JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR AND FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR JUDGES praised Catherine as a reporter who is ‘equally at home in rural Ireland, with loyalists in Portadown, with those who...

JOHN LEE POLITICAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR THE panel lauded John’s reputation for ‘digging, holding the powerful to account ... and a bit of devilment as well’. They singled out his work in ‘exposing the underbelly of Garda management and mismanagement...