PPAI

Politics
2024

1ST PLACE WINNER
Politics 2024

IMPROVING FOREIGN AFFAIRS

by Alan Betson

Minister for Justice, Simon Harris, Minister for Environment, Climate, Communications and Transport, Eamon Ryan, Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Micheál Martin, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Rt Hon Chris Heaton-Harris, Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Steve Baker MP and Minister of State for Media, Data, and Digital Infrastructure, Julia Lopez MP speaking to media after a meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference in Farmleigh House.

2ND PLACE
MAYO FOR JOE!

By Mark Condren

US President Joe Biden who made his final address outside St. Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina, Co. Mayo.

3RD PLACE
MARY LOU MCDONALD

By Frank McGrath

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald kisses the hand of Dr. Jilan Abdalmajid, Palestinian Ambassador to Ireland, after her address to the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Athlone.

SHORTLISTED
MICHELLE O’NEILL, PRO-TRANS GATHERING, DUBLIN

By Nick Bradshaw

Michelle O’Neill, Vice President of Sinn Féin and MLA for the Mid Ulster Constituency since 2007.

SHORTLISTED
MICHEÁL MARTIN, TÁNAISTE AND FIANNA FÁIL PARTY LEADER

By Nick Bradshaw

Tánaiste and party leader Micheál Martin after addressing Fianna Fáil’s Ard Fheis 2023 in Dublin.

SHORTLISTED
PRIME MINISTER’S QUESTIONS

By Niall Carson

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a huddle with political journalists on board a government plane as he heads to Washington DC in the US.

SHORTLISTED
ARCHITECTS OF PEACE

By Jonathan Porter

Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair look on as former US President Bill Clinton embraces Senator George Mitchell after unveiling a bust of him during the ‘Agreement 25 Conference’ at Queen’s University, Belfast, marking the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

SHORTLISTED
ELECTRIC BUS

By Alan Betson

Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan with kids from Dean Kelly National School in Athlone getting a trip on one of the first new electric buses at the launch of Ireland’s first electric town bus service in Athlone.