Ellen Blehein and her husband, Robert Somerville, whose back garden completely collapsed into the River Camac in Dublin from repeat flooding in the area.
By Niall Carson
A puffin is chased by a gull on Great Saltee Island off Co. Wexford, one of Ireland's major bird sanctuaries, home to puffins, gannets, guillemots, razorbills, cormorants, great black-backed gulls, kittiwakes and Manx shearwaters.
By Eamon Ward
Lightning interrupts an August day’s swimming at Lahinch, Co. Clare.
By Niall Carson
Common frogs in a pond in the Dublin Mountains. Depending on weather conditions the frogs emerge from hibernation in February or March and head for their freshwater breeding grounds to begin spawning.
By Mark Condren
Luna the labrador in white beach foam caused by high waves in Rush Harbour.
By Fran Veale
A guillemot makes its final approach to land on Ireland’s Eye, where the summer visitors return every year to breed.
By Alan Betson
Crows help themselves to the moulting fur of a young fallow deer in Dublin’s Phoenix Park as it sheds its winter coat.
A great crested grebe with her chick on her back, they do this as it offers vital protection fom underwater predators and to keep them warm and dry before their feathers are waterproof.
By Niall Carson
Blue-green algae at Battery Harbour on Lough Neagh near Cookstown, Co. Tyrone.
By Sam Boal
The Grand Canal, Dublin, offers up an intriguing juxtaposition of the natural and the abstract.
