1ST PLACE WINNER
Nature & The Environment 2021
BRIGHT SPARK!
by Damien EagersA fallow deer with an electrical cable wrapped around its antlers in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

Waves crash over Clontarf’s sea wall and rush through the port holes of a nearby shelter as Storm Brendan hit the coast road in Dublin.
The supermoon rising behind the Baily Lighthouse in Howth, Co. Dublin.
Peter O’Brien at Sandymount Strand, Dublin, to launch One Future, a new campaign group for faster and fairer climate action.
A meteor travels above above rows of fresh-cut turf during the Lyrids meteor shower, viewed from the Dark Sky Park in Ballycroy, Co. Mayo.
A brown booby shakes off the rain drops as he rests. Normally found in the tropics, this one strayed off-course all the way to Ireland’s East coast to become the first brown booby found on the island.
An early morning pedestrian checks her phone as heavy floods hit Cork city centre, following the bursting of the River Lee’s banks.
By John C Kelly
A lightning strike over northwest Ennis, Co. Clare, as seen from Woodstock Hill.
A lone stag wanders through mist in Phoenix Park at sunrise during the annual rut.