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A STUDENT BURSARY award has been created in honour of journalist Nick Sheridan, who died last year aged 32.
Nick, who was from Wexford, died in March after a short illness. He had worked for the BBC and RTÉ and both broadcasters paid tribute to him at the time as a talented journalist and kind person.
He presented programmes on BBC Scotland including Drivetime, the Nine and Seven Days, and had previously been consumer affairs correspondent for BBC Scotland News. He had also previously presented RTÉ’s news programme for children news2day.
His former employers the BBC and STV, as well as the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) where he worked as a part-time lecturer, are now funding the Nick Sheridan Memorial Bursary.
Nick attended Dublin City University and graduated from its journalism class of 2013. In addition to his journalism career, he also wrote several children’s books.
Launching at the start of the 2025 academic year, the successful bursary candidate will receive £1,500 and a week’s paid work experience at BBC Scotland and STV after graduation.
The bursary will go to a final-year student studying either the BA (Hons) television, radio & podcast production course or BA (Hons) journalism/sport journalism course at UWS, selected on the basis of their third-year coursework.
BBC Scotland director Hayley Valentine said: “Nick was the heart and soul of the BBC Scotland newsroom and we miss him every day. I’m delighted we’re able to announce this bursary in his name with our partners at STV and UWS.
“It’s a fitting tribute and I hope it helps students capable of matching Nick’s considerable talent realise that potential,” she said.
“I look forward to meeting the first recipient of the Nick Sheridan Memorial Bursary later this year.”
Linda Grimes Douglas, head of news and current affairs at STV, said: “Nick was a highly-skilled broadcaster and an impeccable journalist with a natural flair for storytelling. His talent and warm sense of humour made him a pleasure to have in the newsroom.
“We are so pleased to be partnering with BBC Scotland and the University of the West of Scotland in the creation of this special bursary, to support new broadcast and published journalism talent in his name.”
Professor Dr Kasim N Sheikh, dean of the School of Business & Creative Industries at UWS, said: “Nick Sheridan made a huge impact on the lives of UWS students during his time with us.
“He was generous with his expertise, his time and his humanity.
“The university has an excellent track record of producing work-ready graduates and it is wonderful that this award, made in his name by the BBC and STV, will support the next generation of students as they consider careers in the broadcast industries.”
On behalf of Nick’s family, his brother Brian said: “We are humbled and truly grateful to the BBC, STV and the University of the West of Scotland for coming together to develop this bursary in Nick’s name, of which he would be so proud.
“Nick was hugely passionate about developing the talents of future journalists and this bursary offers a wonderful opportunity for a young person to honour this passion for media in his name.”
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What a fooking cabbage,
@Mike Doe: ah bOT BOt
@larry smith: What’s the Average Hourly Rate for the Working Class in China?
Anyone know?
What a dip-stick. The most dangerous man on the planet
@Thomas Meaney: Unbelievable…there are NO words!!!
@Mick Hanna: oh theres plenty of words they’d just be deleted on here!!
@Helen McKernan: Exactly!
@Mike Doe: BoT bOt BOt
Yeah, you really thought us a lesson there Donald. You’re a big boy, and brave and Mommie’s favourite.
@Louis Jacob: I walked past a row of almost new cars in a shopping centre today and 8 out of ten were Asian made. Only two older European cars, no US made. Europe may have to copy Trump eventually.
@thomas molloy: I drive a Japanese import because I can’t afford a Mercedes or Citroen. If tariffs are applied on Japanese cars, I just will have to do without a car, because I won’t be any more able to afford the European alternatives than before. That’s what a lot of people don’t seem to grasp. Tariffs make things less affordable for a group of consumers. Not only that, but reduced competition will make other items more expensive.
@thomas molloy: you should move over to the US and live in the utopia you think trump is building
@thomas molloy: Is that so? Tell us more about your day and the lessons you learned from your observations. They sound fascinating.
@thomas molloy: Eventully ? Decouple from US dollar and go to their platform with CBDC leading the charge ….smoke n mirrors and Donald is providing all the smoke for Brussels
@thomas molloy: Buy a Tesla assembled in Germany. All parts made in China. But yeah.
@Anne WG: Ireland is a prison in transport. Our access to the ‘global market’ is heavily restricted… by Irish people who actively work to make sure other Irish people can absolutely not receive value for money. We do it to ourselves because we stoopy
He is so insecure. When you’re explaining, you’re losing, and trump is losing badly. America needs to wake up!
@Fiona: He’s demonstrably lying through his teeth too. The dillusions are insane.
@Fiona: True Fiona but even if every American woke up now the fact remains that he’s only a few weeks in office. There’s a 4 year term of him ahead, regardless!
@Andrew Kenny: the tide is turning, I think. I heard Cal Thomas on Matt Cooper earlier, and he wasn’t singing trump’s praises for once! That cur knows which side his bread is buttered on, and he knows enough powerful people are sick of trump. A few weeks back, he was laughing about trump’s Gaza Riviera comments.
@Fiona: You need a MAGA dictionary. He’s losing BIGLY, not BADLY.
@Andrew Kenny: I think you’ll find he’s a few months in office and he’s managed to tank the US economy, lose decades of trust built with allies, lose all credibility in America globally and essentially drive the US back to the colonial era with international relations. Europe will begin building up stronger relations with China, create more trade partnerships and distance itself from relying on the US as it is now an unreliable and untrustworthy ally.
@Mike Doe: Everything is just beautiful according to Trump. It seems to be his favourite word
@Mike Doe: edjit
Please tell me that the average American guy/gal is not swallowing his BS!
@Lulu: like vitamins
@Lulu: like his famous bleach
@Lulu: Going by facebook comments its very 50/50…some people will just blindly follow him
Can that man even open his mouth without lying ? The timeline doesn’t lie. The EU paused their retaliatory tariffs AFTER Trump backed down and announced a 90 day pause. It had nothing to do with China.
Crayons and colouring books spring to mind for some reason that I can’t fathom
So that electronic device or other piece of plastic crap made in China and sold in Walmart is going to cost 145% more for the US consumer? And this is a win how?
Effers will probably still get elected again though….
@Ronan Mc: even if only an unintended consequence, reducing consumerism must be good, right?
@Oh Mammy: yes! Americans will pay more for gadgets and phones whether they are made by poorly paid overworked Chinese workers or in America due to raw materials being sourced abroad, better pay rates and other benefits. Not to mention the initial investment of setting up factories in the US which businesses will seek to recoup. Either way, that will reduce demand as people can’t afford them, prices will rise even more and production sharply drop. A loss for the economy maybe but a win for the environment
@Mike Doe: i dare you to say that in tiananmen square
@Ronan Mc: The average American does not appear to understand what a tariff is. I saw posts from last night complaining the tracking for their AliExpress purchases had the packages stuck in US Customs. They had no idea that Customs were probably trying to understand what rate to apply vs just send the packages back to China.
Why tariff something we don’t buy (American cars, meat)
@Trevor Beacom: why tariff the things we do?
@Trevor Beacom: Because the rich need the price to drop so they can continue to compete with each other in a constructed reality where one of them will outright claim all the money in the world.
@Thesaltyurchin: can you explain how tariffing something that does not exist plays out in your scenario?
Delusional
This Yoke needs to be taken out, & I ain’t talkin’ dinner…Personally destroys Zelensky on the World Stage, Brown Nose Lapdogs grovelling at his feet, Scuttering over the World Markets to benefit his pals…. Why can’t someone ( preferably in a white coat ) Publically Remove This Rambling Mad Man from office & restore world normalisation. What a ( over oranged )Stain on Society….
Then, if possible, If You Could Smother Vance…..That Would Be Great
@Rico: I couldn’t agree with you more Man… very well put.
@Rico: and then there’s Vance
Trump deliberately shafting the regular American in order to enrich himself and his cronies. Yet they’ll still worship him when he says nasty things about trans folk. Brainwashed
How utterly predictable that the EU and Von Der are of course going to sacrifice Ireland ,just like the global financial crisis,but our yokes will still be over backwards for their masters
The man is an embarrassment to humanity
Is it not about time that the media here in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe gave less attention and coverage to incidents that occur in the U.S. such as the one tonight in New York. If a similar incident or much worse occurred anywhere else in the world the American wouldn’t give it the time of day and would completely ignore it.
@Leonard Barry: to your point, the Sudan article today set a Journal record for number of comments submitted
Howard Lutnick Trump’s tariffs man will do Ireland no favours on Pharmaceutical or the technology companies. With his background he is a big supporter of Netanyahu and Israel. With Ireland’s stand with Palestine and Genocide. As usual these people are too clever for their own good ! We hay to use the good offices of the Irish Senators, and the 35 million Americans of the US Irish diaspora to ensure Trump, treats Ireland fairly. These Israelis throwing weight around, cannot be accepted!!
What colour is the sky in his world?
@Ian McDonald: can’t see it through the chemtrails
Where’s the sniper?
A few on here would love to swallow it.
As the bond market scuttled Trumps tarrif plans now is the time for the EU to impose large tactical tarrifs on the U S. Be great to see the bond market forcing Trump to grovel to the EU looking for a deal and not the other way around. Politically it could finish off trump and his dumbass ideas.
A monumental tool.
There is no way he’ll last 4 years… surely his cult members are awake after this episode!!!
What’s the average hourly rate for the Working Class in China?
Anyone know?
“My Dad’s younger than him and we don’t give him the controls for the telly!”
Well One, has to handed to my Friends, that was some response, to one’s last correspondence, all one can say is, that today is the day, as was stated in that report, ” The details were given earlier this week” such details ‘ showed a positive reading, ‘Punching those numbers are the “Max” and is the Key, but as the saying goes, not your ‘ Key’s ‘ well we, all, know the rest. Unlike that hoodie in that report, this Hoodie, keeps one’s commitments with his Friends!
Let’s see that we are all, on the right track
So a ‘ bit ‘ of down day, yesterday but today, it should be all steam Ahead, the Market should/could ” Deliver ” a 50 % gaine, one will only know after the day, is over!
It seems one, is in contempt here, please let One know how? Just following the plan and process, one, thought was in place!
On reflection, maybe one, read that in the wrong light, it’s the application of that process, that was being conveyed to one, by his Friends, let see if that’s what was meant!
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