Mitchelstown student Claire Fox from UCC (centre), with one of her awards, pictured with Joanne Cooper (Miss Universe Ireland - left) and Roisin Healy (KBC).

The KBC National Student Media Awards are the highlight of the social calendar for any budding student writer and for Claire Fox, who came home with two awards, they were extra special.

The final year English and French student from UCC is originally from Marshalstown, Mitchelstown and she won an award for Features Writer of the Year for Arts and Pop Culture and also the European Commission award.

Claire has been contributing to the college paper in UCC since she started there and is currently the editor-at-large for …

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