Press Photographers Ireland CLG

Portrait
2025

1ST PLACE WINNER
Portrait 2025

FORGING FRIENDSHIPS

by Michael Mclaughlin

Ben Burke, master blacksmith from Foxford, Co. Mayo, works his travelling forge with ‘Penny’, his partridge Pekin Bantam, perched on the anvil.

2ND PLACE
JERRY FROM KERRY

By Gareth Chaney

Ploughman Jerry Dennehy from Kerry with horses ‘Larry’ & ‘Elton John’ during The National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co. Laois.

3RD PLACE
BRAZIL

By James Crombie

Brazil supporters at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

SHORTLISTED
TINA PARTON

By Claire Nash

Tina D Parton, a seannós brush dancing drag queen from Offaly, photographed at Lough Boora Parkland.

SHORTLISTED
LEITRIM LADY

By Philip Doyle

Lisa Gifford who owns and runs Leitrim Hill Creamery, a small holding goat farm and creamery in Drumcong, Co. Leitrim, stands in front of an old Famine cottage which she has converted to a milking parlour for her goats.

SHORTLISTED
PRESIDENT MARY MCALEESE

By Philip Doyle

Irish activist lawyer, academic, author and former Uachtarán na hÉireann Mary McAleese, who now hosts a podcast, in Dublin City Centre.

SHORTLISTED
SLAM DUNK

By James Crombie

Drogheda Wolves’ Christian Simmons poses for a portrait.

SHORTLISTED
THE DUDE

By Marc O’Sullivan

Musician Jerry Fish.