Clare FM News up for 2014 New York Radio Awards

Clare FM is in the running for a major international award for news coverage.

The station's flagship Current Affairs Show, Morning Focus with John Cooke has made the list of finalists in the 2014 New York Radio Awards for an entry entitled "Life and Death on the Streets".

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It featured Czech National Josef Pavelka who's story of homelessness and sleeping in a public toilet was covered extensively on Clare FM, along with local reaction to his subsequent death in a laneway in Ennis last May.

The Clare FM News team previously won a New York Radio Award in 2008 and this year's ceremony takes place in the Big Apple in June.