Portrait
2024

Eimear Burke, druid and chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, pictured at dawn at her home in Co. Kilkenny.

One of the stars of this year’s The Late Late Toy Show 7-year-old, Sheamie Garrihy, gets back to his routine work, helping his dad Jamie with blocklaying at home in Knockroe, Kilfenora, Co. Clare.

Mary Duffy, artist, sailor and thalidomide survivor – “my barstool is like an extension of my body, I take it everywhere”.

David Keohan lifting ‘An Cloch Corchra’ the purple stone at Stage Cove, Copper Coast, Waterford. David is from Waterford City and on a mission to re-popularise the ancient tradition of stone lifting. He is also known as “Indiana Stones” and holds a world record in kettlebell lifting.

Music fan, Paul Stafford, pictured before the Dexys’ concert at 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin.

Author, Claire Keegan, at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, in Annaghmakerrig, Co. Monaghan.

Siobhan MacGowan, sister of the late Shane MacGowan, at their great grandmother’s cottage in Tipperary

Lena Maughan shows her upset on learning the person convicted of her rape at 15 years old had appealed his conviction.