Personal Information
Thomas Felle
Address:
Tynagh, Loughrea, Co Galway
Tel:
(087) 2848575
Fax:
(087) 3848575
Email:
tfelle@tinet.ie
Website:
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~tfelle
Date of birth: 24 March
1977
Passport and driving licence held
Education
Leaving Certificate 1995 - 6 honours.
I am currently a student in DIT Aungier
Street. I hope to graduate in June 2000 with a B.Sc. Comm. (Jrnl).
Interests and achievements
I represented my school at inter-provincial
level in 1994 when I played rugby for Connacht.
I have received an Gaisce from the President,
Mrs McAleese, who presented me with the gold award at a ceremony in Dublin
Castle, in January 1998.
I was successful is setting up a student
Chapel in college and was elected FOC in January 1999.
Journalistic experience
Radio - I have worked as a news
reporter and as political editor for DIT FM (college radio).
I completed a one-week work experience
programme in East Coast Radio, Bray, where I worked as journalist.
Print - I worked for the Connacht
Tribune as a staff reporter during summer 1997 and 1998. I also worked
in feature and sports writing there.
I have written features and in-depth interviews
for the sports magazine, Highball.
I have worked both as a reporter and a
sub-editor for the DIT Examiner, a DIT students' newspaper.
I was given the opportunity to travel
to the Netherlands in February 1998 to participate in a six-month training
course, which was run in conjunction with the European Commission. The
course included theory on a variety of media as well as producing a news
magazine entitled Yourope. I was layout editor of the edition.
I have worked as a reporter, a sub- and
sports editor with the Liberty, a newspaper produced by journalism students
in DIT.
Online - In October 1998 I attended
an international journalism print project in Finland, entitled Euroreporter.
I was online editor of the edition.
I am currently the online editor of the
Liberty. I was responsible for putting the paper online in February 1999,
and it was recently awarded a "4 shamrock" award by Doras, Telecom Internet's
website directory.
Referees
| Mr Michael Foley | Mr John Cunningham |
| Head of Journalism | Editor, the Connacht Tribune |
| DIT Aungier St, Dublin 2 | Galway |
| (01) 4023000 | (091) 567251 |