INM's Charlie Weston honoured with Outstanding Achievement award for Business Journalism

Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, Dean, UCD College of Business; Emer Gilvarry, Chair, Business Journalist Awards Judging Panel and Chairperson, Mason Hayes & Curran; Charlie Weston, Irish Independent, Outstanding Achievement Award Winner; Carolan Lennon, Managing Director, open eir (sponsor); Donal O’Donovan (as Chair of BJA). Picture by Shane O'Neill Photography.

Sean Duffy

The Irish Independent’s Personal Finance Editor, Charlie Weston, has been honoured with an Outstanding Achievement award at the annual Smurfit Business Journalist Awards in Dublin.

Mr Weston was honoured at an event which celebrates the efforts of business journalists from across Irish media.

Mr Weston has been a stalwart at Independent News and Media for over twenty years, where his work in areas like pensions, mortgages and insurance has been a key part of the group’s financial offering to readers.

He has been a long-time monitor of credit institutions in Ireland, and earlier this year, he revealed a series of fraud allegations at Rush Credit Union which is now the subject of a Garda investigation.

Mr Weston’s “You and Your Money” column has become a staple in INM’s business coverage in recent years.

In a short tweet, Mr Weston expressed his delight at being recognised: “This is something else”, he said.

Other award winners included RTE’s Will Goodbody (Specialist Reporter), Paul Colgan of UTV Ireland (Business Feature), Barry Whyte of the Sunday Business Post(Business Interview) and Paul O’ Donoghue of Fora.ie (Upcoming Business Journalist).

This was the tenth year the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Business Journalist Awards in association with open eir recognised the outstanding contributions of Irish business journalists.

The event was hosted by Today FM’s Matt Cooper, himself a former recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award.