1ST PLACE WINNER
Features 2008
DON'T LET GO DADDY
by Brian LawlessA young girl clings to her father’s finger as she watches the guests arrive for her aunt’s wedding.
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By Julien Behal
Sahr Ngekia, seven-years-old, in Kanikay Boys Shelter, a GOAL sponsored project in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with scars on his arms from where he was tied up by his grandfather for three days, for losing one dollar.
Bare knuckle fight is held at a secret location; where only a small number of people are allowed attend.
By IT'S A FAR CRY FROM THE HOSPITALITY TENT
Kevin Clare sees the funny side of things, as Taoiseach Brian Cowen T.D. has his photograph taken with some jockeys at the Galway Races. It was the first year that there was no Fianna Fáil hospitality tent, under the orders of the new Taoiseach
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Twenty-year-old Selamawit Jovani, eighteen-year-old Selamawit Shimeles and twenty-year-old Ayelu Abera in the plastic shelter which they share in the centre of Addis Ababa, near an open sewer, without power or water. Candles are their only source of heat and light
The light on the stairwell at City Hall, Limerick, points to the Crescent Moon with Venus nearby.
Mervyn Nixon, who specialises in the creation and fitting of prosthetic eyes.
A young boy looks through a queue for food in Concern’s Kalinga IDP Refugee Camp, near Masisi, DRC, Congo, where people displaced by internal militia fighting in the country are being housed.
Niamh Lamb and her husband Adrian, celebrate on their wedding day.
The Irish humanitarian agency GOAL works with communities in Abyei, a social and economic bridge between North and South Sudan, to develop safe water systems. Here, a GOAL volunteer hands out soap at a health clinic.
"From the horse’s mouth, in the stables during the Connemara Pony Show, in Clifden"
Young thrill-seekers take the plunge at the Blackrock Diving Tower, in Galway.
"President of Tommy Larkin’s Hurling Club, 81 year-old Eamonn Harte, shows he can swing with the best of them during an All-Ireland Intermediate Final training session "
By Fran Veale
A male Arctic owl in mid-flight at Dublin Zoo. Arctic owls, now an endangered species, have been bred successfully in the zoo since the late 1800s.
Children wait for the arrival of King Puck, at Puck Fair, Killorglin