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| PRESIDENT Dr Malcolm Brodie CHAIRMAN Stephen Looney (Sunday World) VICE CHAIRMAN Mark McIntosh (Sunday Mirror) SECRETARY Ian Callender TREASURER Denise Watson COMMITTEE Chris Holt Ivan Martin Paul Ferguson Ruth Gorman enquiries@nifwa.com |
| The Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association is a voluntary organisation formed to support and promote professional football writing in Northern Ireland. The objectives of the Association are: - to maintain the prestige of football writers - to obtain a higher standard of facilities at grounds - to maintain a professional and friendly liaison with all football associations, leagues and clubs - to welcome and entertain overseas football writers carrying out their duties in Northern Ireland - to be a medium for the reporting of grievances for action by the office bearers - the doing of all such other things as are incidental and conducive to the attainment of the above NIFWA was formed at a meeting in the Editorial offices of Sunday News on May 4, 1967 after various members expressed the need for the existence of such an organisation in Northern Ireland. Jack Milligan was the first Chairman, Derek Murray the first Secretary and Gerry McGuigan the first Treasurer. The first annual (Irish Cup final) Dinner was held in the Park Avenue Hotel on Thursday, April 25, 1968 with 15 present, including the cup final managers. There were eight official guests at the second annual Dinner and all the managers of Irish League clubs were invited. The first Northern Ireland Football Writers Player of the Year was handed over by the chairman at the annual Dinner in 1970. Guinness were approached in October 1970 regarding sponsorship of the Association. They put forward £100 for the Leading Goalscorer of the Year and the Dinner was sponsored by Guinness from 1972 until 2009, with more than 300 guests attending our most recent annual Dinner at Belfast's Europa Hotel. NIFWA currently has 61 members, five of which are honorary office bearers, elected annually. A committee of at least six members is also elected at the AGM. Members comprise journalists from BBC Northern Ireland, UTV, Cool FM, Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Life, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, News of the World, Sunday World, News Letter, the Sun and regional newspapers throughout Northern Ireland. |
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| PRESIDENT Dr Malcolm Brodie CHAIRMAN Stephen Looney (Sunday World) VICE CHAIRMAN Mark McIntosh (Sunday Mirror) SECRETARY Ian Callender TREASURER Denise Watson COMMITTEE Chris Holt Ivan Martin Paul Ferguson Ruth Gorman enquiries@nifwa.com |
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| Manager of the Month January 2010 Coleraine boss David Platt picks up the NI Football Writers' Carling Premiership Manager of the Month award from Vice Chairman Mark McIntosh |
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| Premiership Player of the Month |
| Championship 1 Player of the Month |
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| Carling girls Aisling Duffy and Catherine Milligan with Coleraine's Rory Patterson |
| Steven Lowry, formerly of Limavady United, made it a Bannsiders treble |
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| Goal of the Month Chris Scannell's dipping strike for Cliftonville against Lisburn Distillery was February's top effort |
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