Reportage
2025

After receiving a diagnosis of appendix cancer my wife Brenda underwent extensive cancer preventive surgery, known as cytoreductive urgery, and HIPEC chemotherapy. Since this procedure is not performed in Northern Ireland we travelled to Basingstoke Hospital in England where the 10-hour surgery was performed. Recent CT scans have been very positive. Brenda is now fully recovered and looking forward to the future.

Every winter solstice the sun alignment sets in Dowth chamber and rises in Newgrange chamber. On the afternoon of the 20th December 2024, an intimate group of people gathered in Dowth to ‘let go of the darkness’. They then carried a flame from the ceremonial fire through the night to Newgrange.

The funeral of legendary Gaelic radio and television commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh at Milltown Cemetery, near Dingle, Co. Kerry.

Participants in the Boyne Valley Viking Festival which took place in the shadows of Slane Castle, Co. Meath.

Athletes during the Paralympic Games held in Paris, France.

Joe and Dolores Gorman, owners of Garryhinch Wood Exotic Mushroom Farm on the banks of the River Barrow. They have been mushroom farming for over 30 years, growing a wide range of sustainable wild exotic organic mushrooms.

The International Draghunt in Watergrasshill, Co. Cork. The winning dog was the reigning champion ‘Authority’ followed by his kennel tablemate ‘Authentic’.

A set of pictures made on the streets near Leinster House in Dublin in early autumn as the light got lower in the sky.

Taoiseach Simon Harris - Election Campaign 2024.