Mr Quinlan gave an undeclared \u20ac2.5 million tax refund to his wife<\/a>.<\/p>\nDetails of the transfer were included in a trove of documents obtained by The Irish Times from UK records in a long-running investigation into Mr Quinlan\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n
Now in its 18th year, the Smurfit journalism awards are sponsored by Bank of Ireland and covered seven categories. <\/p>\n
Eoin Burke-Kennedy, Ciara O\u2019Brien and Hugh Dooley of The Irish Times were also shortlisted for awards. <\/p>\n
Other award winners were Conor O\u2019Carroll from the Journal Investigates, Adrian Weckler of the Irish Independent, Fearghal O\u2019Connor from the Sunday Independent, and Kathleen Gallagher and Emma Hanrahan of the Business Post. The podcast award went to an audio story by the Irish Independent. <\/p>\n
Separately, the outstanding achievement award was presented to veteran author, journalist and broadcaster Sam Smyth, who had a long and distinguished career with Independent Newspapers and Today FM. He currently contributes to the Currency, a specialist online publisher. <\/p>\n
In his acceptance speech, Mr Smyth, who was born in Belfast, recounted how he could have made London his home and once had an offer to settle in New York but chose to come to Dublin instead. <\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot imagine living anywhere else but in Dublin. I truly love Dublin,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He closed his speech with these words of advice for young journalists. \u201cJournalism is not a profession, it\u2019s a craft. One best learned over time, telling the truth. It is also capable of much good and even some great things.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judging panel for the awards was chaired by former Garda commissioner N\u00f3ir\u00edn O\u2019Sullivan. The winners of each category were awarded a \u20ac1,000 prize. <\/p>\n
Professor Federica Pazzaglia, director of UCD Smurfit School and associate dean of UCD College of Business, said: <\/b>\u201cThe work of Ireland\u2019s business journalists deepens understanding of the issues shaping our economy and society, bringing clarity, analysis and accountability at moments that matter most.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Paul, London Correspondent of The Irish Times, won business news story of the year on Monday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,120047,18,19,17,105949],"class_list":{"0":"post-222908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-derek-quinlan","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-the-irish-times"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115687222350198495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}