The best 27 photographs from last year: PPAI awards

Tom Honan named Press Photographer of the Year

Irish Times freelance Tom Honan has been named PPAI Press Photographer of the Year. Dubliner Honan won for his Irish Times commissioned portfolio and won three of the award’s nine categories – Politics, Arts and Entertainment, Portrait – as well as the overall award.

Irish Times Picture Editor Brenda Fitzsimons won the Daily Life and People category for her photo of former National Maternity hospital master Rhona O’Mahony and Bryan O’Brien was named multimedia photographer of the year for his video of work riders at stables on the Curragh.

The Press Photographers Association of Ireland awards took place in Dublin on Friday night. An exhibition of this year’s awards, featuring 101 prints, will be available to view at the Ballsbridge Hotel until Thursday, February 21st, before it moves to the RDS.

NEWS

1 Gary Ashe, Irish Daily Star

2 Fergal Philips

3 Leah Farrell, Rollingnews.ie

DAILY LIFE AND PEOPLE

1 Brenda Fitzsimons, The Irish Times

2 Tom Honan

3 Steve Humphreys, INM

SPORTS ACTION

1 Stephen McCarthy, Sportsfile

2 Tommy Dickson, Inpho

3 Oisín Keniry, Inpho

SPORTS FEATURE

1 Michael Chester

2 Ramsey Cardy, Sportsfile

3 William Cherry, Presseye

PORTRAIT

1 Tom Honan

2 Daragh Mac Sweeney

3 Jerry Kennelly

NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT

1 Ramsey Cardy, Sportsfile

2 Valerie O‘Sullivan

3 Margaret McLaughlin

POLITICS

1 Tom Honan

2 Clodagh Kilcoyne, Reuters

3 Naoise Culhane

ART AND ENTERTAINMENT

1 Tom Honan

2 Hany Marzouk

3 Sasko Lazarov, Photocall

REPORTAGE

1 James Crombie, Inpho

2 Declan Monaghan

3 Liam McBurney, Razorpix

MULTIMEDIA

Bryan O‘Brien, The Irish Times

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2019

Tom Honan