A Co Fermanagh teenager who was the youngest person to receive an award from the New Year’s Honours has said he is was ‘delighted and astonished’ to hear he had made the cut.
18-year-old Dara McAnulty, who has now gone on to study at Queen’s College, Cambridge, picked up a BEM for his environmental campaigning and work with people living with autism.
Dara is an award-winning writer who has penned three books, one of which made him the youngest ever winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.