1ST PLACE WINNER
Portrait 2014
REFLECTIONS
by Julien BehalIfrah Ahmed, a Somali campaigner against female circumcision, pictured at an event sponsored by Irish Aid, in Dublin
By Julien Behal
Praveen Halappanavar, outside Galway County Hall, after the jury at the inquest into his wife’s death returned a unanimous verdict of death by medical misadventure
By Leon Farrell
A 16-year-old mother waits to be seen to by the charity GOAL, who help to take young mothers off the streets in Ethiopia
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, receives the Tipperary International Peace Award
By PAULIE
Munster, Ireland and British and Irish Lion Paul O’Connell during an interview at UL Arena, Limerick
First year students from St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin, pose for a class photo with their digital schoolbooks on the first day of term
The late poet Séamus Heaney at the signing of the ‘Great Book of Ireland’ in University College Cork
By Seán Curtin
Ellamae McCarthy, a pupil at Our Lady’s Abbey National School, Adare, Co. Limerick, after winning an art competition
World 50k walk champion Robert Heffernan during a portrait session
By Julien Behal
Former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave visiting his father’s old classroom at CBS James’ Street, 40 years to the day he became Taoiseach, during a Gathering 2013 event
John Hurt, who appeared in the production of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’, at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
One of the last residents on the top floor of the Joseph Plunkett Tower in Ballymun, Teresa Freeman before the demolition of the tower.