Sam Barnes
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Award winning sports photographer for @sportsfile , based in Dublin.
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It’s a truly sad state of affairs that comments have to be turned off on on a post about one of the most exiting talents in Irish athletics because of racism!
10:84 (+3.5 wind) for Rhasidat Adeleke over 100m at the Texas Invitational tonight 🤯🔥🔥🔥
Sarah Lavin's National 100m record 11:27🤩
#IrishAthletics
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The rise of Irish sprint sensation Rhasidat Adeleke - Through my lens, and the lenses of my talented colleagues at Sportsfile.
After all Rome wasn’t built in a day!
All photos ©️
@sportsfile
A 🧵
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Brotherly love - Friend and fellow
@sportsfile
photographer Eóin Noonan consoles his young sister Saoirse after today’s TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Football Championship Final
#ProperFan
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That was special.
Gold for Ireland Ciara Mageean in the women’s 1500m
Final! 🥇
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So that just happened!
What a team. What a performance. And a throughly deserved European gold medal gets us up and running in Rome!
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We all need a Tara Davis-Woodhall in our corner !
She absolutely roared home her
@usatf
team mates Nikki Hiltz and Emily Mackay to silver and bronze in the women’s 1500m final at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow!
#WorldIndoorChamps
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Delighted to hear that I won the gold award in the
#Athletics
category of the World Sports Photography Award 2022!
As well as being awarded a special merit in the Venues and Views category!
#wspa22
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Don’t get to show off this sequence very often, and it’s one of my personal favourites from an All-Ireland Final!
Enjoy retirement
#LeeKeegan
!
#GAA
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Family and friends may not have been able to travel to Tallinn for the European U20 Athletics Championships, but they made sure to welcome home
@irishathletics
record breaking golden generation!
#athletics
#welcomehome
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Only gone and won the Sports in Action Category of the Siena International Photo Awards!
#sienaawards
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7yrs ago I landed in Dublin to join
@sportsfile
!
Since then Ive covered National Athletics, All Ireland Finals, The 6 Nations and even the Paralympic Games in Tokyo and everything between!
Thanks
@Sportsfileray
for taking a punt on a young lad from Reading!
#dreamjob
#timeflies
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That moment when you realise you have qualified for a world indoor 4x400m final
with a new national record!
#WorldIndoorChamps
#Athletics
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Not a bad days work on home soil for the Irish U20 and U23 Men’s teams at European Cross Country Championships at the Sport Ireland Campus today!
Individual Silver for Darragh McElhinney, followed up with U23 Team gold and U20 Team silver!
#FingalDublin2021
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Absolutely thrilled to be announced as a finalist in the
@WorldAthletics
photograph of the year for the second year in a row!
Maybe this will be my year to win the ever elusive 🥇
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Happy to have made the Top 25 images of the year in the IAAF Photo Award - congratulations to the four finalists!
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Schools cancelled, training’s off and the leagues are postponed..... only one thing for it!
Jumpers for goalposts anyone?
#COVID_19
#CoronaOutbreak
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Delighted to have won 2nd prize in the Photography Sports Action category of the AIPS Awards in Santa Susana, Spain!
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Berlin Bronze never tasted so good!
#TheMoment
#Berlin2018
Congratulations Tom! Let the celebrations begin!
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Delighted that my picture of
@Flaamingoo_
has been listed as a finalist in the
@WorldAthletics
photograph of the year awards!
Great start to the weekend!
#Athletics
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Olympic champ on a stamp!
Great to see An Post celebrating some of Ireland’s female sports stars with their new stamps ahead of
#InternationalWomensDay
!
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Liverpool FC Ambassador Ian Rush was in Dublin today to announce a Pre season friendly between Liverpool FC and Napoli at the Aviva Stadium. Looking forward to the game already!
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2016 - The first picture of Rhasidat in the Sportsfile archives is from the Glohealth All Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships - She won silver in the Minor girls 100m
📸 -
@SportsfileSam
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2024 - 🥇🥈🥈3 medals at the European Athletics Championships in Rome. 🥇 in the mixed 4x400m, 🥈 in the 400m and 🥈 in the women’s 4x400m. In addition to helping Irelands relay teams qualify for Paris 2024 at World Relays in Nassau
And it’s only June…. 👀
📸
@SportsfileSam
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A great days competition in Abbotstown today at the Irish Life Health Senior, Junior and Juvenile Cross Country Championships!
Congratulations to all who competed!
#crosscountry
#running
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Ireland U20 men dig deep and find gold in the mud as Nick Griggs takes bronze, and Fionnuala McCormack battles to fourth in the senior women’s race.
#Brussels2023
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Signing off from Rome with a lovely silver lining! 🥈 for Ireland in the Women’s 4x400m relay!
What a championships!
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A fitting tribute on an emotional day at the Irish Life Health National Indoor Athletics Championships as Dean Adams of Ballymena and Antrim AC won the Craig Lynch Cup after winning the Senior Men’s 60m event.
#justrace
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A hint of English energy and a bit of Mageean Magic and Ireland enter a new Bronze Age!
#Glasgow2019
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“World 400m Hurdles Semi-Finals, Right this way sir!”
Thomas Barr does the business and finishes second in his heat to progress to the next round.
#Doha2019
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Delighted to win third prize in the Sports Action Category of
@PPAI_IRL
annual awards! Looks like it’s just not just the athletes hitting form ahead of Toruń!
3rd Sports Action - ON TO A QUINNER - Sam Barnes, Sportsfile
@SportsfileSam
@Sportsfile
#PPAIAWARDS
#CapturingHistory
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Great to have had two images shortlisted as finalists in the
#Athletics
category of the World Sports Photography Awards 2023!
In with a chance of defending my gold from last year!
#wspa23
#sportsphotography
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Not a bad start to
#Torun2021
as Paul Robinson and Andrew Coscoran progress to the 1500m final!
Luke McCann battled hard against one of the greats in Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway in his heat, but didn’t make the cut.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s final, good luck lads!
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2017 - At 14 years old she won the junior 100m and 200m at the Glohealth All Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships before claiming silver at the European Youth Olympics Festival in Hungary.
📸
@SportsfileSam
@sportsfiledfitz
@EoinNG17
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Sharlene Mawdsley shot for
@sportsfile
and
@TeamIreland
this afternoon ahead of todays Paris 2024 Team Announcement!
Best of luck and congratulations to all selected, see you out there!
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Guna be washing sand out of my hair for months!
Shane Aston Trim A.C. Jumps 6.49m in the senior men’s long jump at the National combined events in AIT today.
Live results ➡️
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Flying the flag above Dublin's fair city! Dublin's Dean Rock and Sinéad Finnegan take in the view during a visit to AIG's Dublin offices
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It felt so good to be back covering some live athletics for
@irishathletics
at the
@SportIreCampus
today!
National Records, PBs, European Indoor Standards, it had it all! Roll on Day 2 Tomorrow!
#Athletics
Day 1 Gallery -
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2019 - 🥇🥇100m and 200m sprint double at European Youth Olympics in Baku, 🥇Senior indoor 200m champion, 🥇Junior 100m champion, 🥇🥇Inter girls 100m and 200m schools champion.
📸
@EoinNG17
@SportsfileSam
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Highlight of the weekend - Israel Olatunde comes up with a national record of 6.57 in the Men's 60m final to win the Craig Lynch Memorial Cup in emphatic style!
With a celebration to match!
#IrishAthletics
#Athletics
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What a performance from Ireland's girls in green to beat South Africa by 10 runs in the Women's T20 International at Pembroke Cricket Club in Dublin.
#BackingGreen
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2018 - 🥇in the 200m at the European U18 Champs in Hungary, 🥈in the IAAF World U20 Relay in Finland. 🥇in the National junior 100m and Indoor 200m champion, and the sprint double in Inter girls 100m and 200m at the all ireland schools championships.
📸
@PiarasPOM
@SportsfileSam
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2021 - 🥇🥇at the European U20 Championships in Tallin, and 🥇🥈with her first senior women’s national title in the 100m, narrowly missing the sprint double finishing 2nd to Phil Healy in the 200m. Takes a scholarship at University of Texas.
📸
@sportsfilesam
and Marko Mumm
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What a haul!
Ireland return home from the European across Country Championships with two bronze medals and two team silver medals!
Superb performances all around!
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Irish Life Health Senior Indoor Athletics Championships - Day 2 ✅
Plenty of track action today, including a new national record for
@runmollyrun101
!
#Athletics
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2022 - 5th at the European Athletics championship with a national record of 50.53 seconds, competes at the world championships in Oregon and defends her national 100m title.
📸
@sportsfiledfitz
@SportsfileSam
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Catch me if you can!
Grant Holloway of USA strides into the World Indoor 60m hurdles final with ease.
#WorldIndoorChampionships
#wicbelgrade22
#WorldIndoorChamps
#Athletics
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Athletics Ireland U23 Athlete of the Year and Joint Athlete of the Year with Ciara Mageean after an incredible year in America and finishing fourth at the World Athletics Champships in Budapest. She was the star attraction at nationals despite not competing.
📸
@SportsfileSam
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Making hay while the sun shines! Irish long jumper Shane Howard (
@howard2107
) trains at the family farm in Cork using hay bales to replace the more traditional sandpit!
#longjump
#athletics
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Today was one of those day where you question your career choices…..
You have a great job… is a term often said to sports photographers - but then there will be days like this! Picture by Sam Barnes for Sportsfile
#CapturingHistory
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What. A. Race!
Paul Robinson & Sean Tobin leave it all on the track in the Men's 1500m to finish a thrilling session on Day 2 of the Irish Life Health National Athletics Championships!
Congrats to all involved, looking forward to next weekend!
Gallery -
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What a run by
@alexbell92
to round off the Irish Milers Meet!
An Olympic Standard, PB’s, Sunshine and even Fans! The Irish Milers
#Athletics
meet at Mary Peters Track in Belfast had it all!
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If renowned
@Offaly_GAA
supporter Mick McDonagh is not stood behind the goal in O'Connor Park on the opening day of the GAA Championship - Something must be wrong!
A few pictures from O'Connor Park, where Offaly were due to face Carlow on Saturday afternoon.
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Mayo get the job done in New York
Not a bad way to spend a few days if you are a
#MayoGAA
supporter!
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Thrilled to have won 1st in the Sports Feature category of the
@PPAI_IRL
awards with my picture "Full Bodied Discourse" from the Connacht FBD League Final.
Also delighted to have images shortlisted in Sports Action and Politics. Well done to all the winners!
#CapturingHistory
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Note to self, edit behind the advertising boards! 🤣🤣
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Leon Reid into the Men’s 200m final and a gutsy performance from Emma Mitchell in the Women’s 10,000m round of Day 2 in
#BERLIN2018
#TheMoment
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On top of winning 3rd prize in the Sports Action category, I am delighted to have a further 4 images in the
@PPAI_IRL
exhibition, 2 shortlisted in Sports Action, with 1 in Sports Non-Action & 1 in News
Congrats to all involved, can't wait to see the exhibition!
#CapturingHistory
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The very definition of a
#photofinish
during the 400m final
@AthloneIT
today! Great determination by both athletes!
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The "Bandon Bullet" has set the standard for Day 2!
First race of Day 2 at the Irish Life Health Elite Athlete Indoor Micro Meet and Phil Healy only goes and sets a PB of 51.99 whilst winning the Women's 400m!
#athletics
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Looks like my Stade de France itinerary just got a bit busier!
Superb performances from both teams, see you all in Paris! 💪🏻
No it wasn’t a dream 🙌🏻
2x teams ✅
2x wins ✅
2x finals ✅
2x NR’s ✅
2x Olympic Qualifiers ✅
A magical night for the Irish at the World Athletics Relays ✨
Read more ⬇️
#IrishAthletics
#WorldRelays
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A Splash of the Ash!
Killian Sampson of Offaly has his clearance blocked by Luke McDwyer of Dublin during today's Bord Gais Energy Leinster Under 20 Hurling Championship Quarter-Final between
@Offaly_GAA
and
@DubGAAOfficial
.
#GAA
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Another spectacular night through the lens!
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A little over 6 years since the boss
@Sportsfileray
welcomed me into Dublin as the newest recruit
@sportsfile
! Time flies when you are having fun!
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Always nice when you get a bit of luck after a long day! I was minding my business on the way home....
.
@SportsfileSam
gets the money shot tonight with this pic of Barr in Berlin. Long may the good times roll.
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Well this takes the edge off my remote not firing at the athletics tonight!
1st prize in Sports Feature at the PPAI annual awards!
#CapturingHistory
#PPAIAwards
1st Sports Feature – FULL BODIED DISCOURSE – Sam Barnes, Sportsfile
@SportsfileSam
@Sportsfile
#PPAIAWARDS
#CapturingHistory
@AIBIreland
#backedbyAIB
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Warm and dry in January.... Not something you say often in my line of Work!
Galway narrowly beat Roscommon in a fiercely contested Connacht FBD League Final at the NUI Galway Connacht Air Dome in Bekan, Mayo.
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The Legend that is 5x Olympian Fionnuala McCormack rounds out my Paris 2024 Olympics in the women’s Marathon.
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Delighted to pick up third prize in the Sports Action category of the annual
@PPAI_IRL
awards!
Congratulations to all involved and to the organisers for getting the awards over the line in unique and challenging circumstances!
#capturinghistory
#PPAIAwards
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Day 1 of the Irish Life Health Senior Indoor Athletics Championships - ✅
Looking forward to more of the same tomorrow!
#Athletics
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Its a case of close... (Agonisingly Close!), but no cigar for the Irish on Day 3 of the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul!
#Istanbul2023
#Athletics
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Irish Life Health
@irishathletics
National Track and Field Championships 2021 -✅
Here are some of my favourite pictures from the thrilling track action on day 3, full gallery from the weekend can be found on the link below -
#Athletics
#trackandfield
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Day one of the National Senior Track and Field Championships ✅
Looking forward to day two tomorrow!
#123Nationals
#Athletics
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Thanks to
@ExaminerSport
for the feature in todays paper, talking about my favourite photograph from that un-barr-lievable bronze in Berlin 2018.
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Day Two of
#Torun2021
!
Phil Healy into the 400m Final, Nadia Power, Mark English and Cian McPhillips into the 800m Semi-Finals, and to round off another brilliant day Andrew Coscoran and Paul Robinson gave it everything in a stacked 1500m Final!
Busy weekend ahead!
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Not the start the Irish would have hoped for but we are up and running (and jumping!) in Istanbul!
#Istanbul2023
#Athletics
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Day two of the National Senior Track and Field Championships ✅
It was a wet one.... time to dry out! Congratulations to all who competed, A cracking weekend of
#athletics
competition, despite the weather!
#IrishAthletics
#123Nationals
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Delighted to win the Best Photograph award at the
@ParalympicsIRE
Tokyo 2020 Awards, with my picture of the multi-talented
@keane_ellen
and her gold medal after winning the Women’s SB8 100m breaststroke!
Congratulations to all award winners!
#TeamIreland
#CapturingHistory
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150th Edition of the National Senior Track and Field Championships 2022 ✅
Some cracking action on the track and off it!
#Athletics
#trackandfield
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Lots of happy faces in the Mayo camp tonight as they progress to the TG4 Ladies Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final!
#LGFA
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Always a great feeling to wake up and see your pictures on some front pages after a long day!
#capturinghistory
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Great evening of competition at The Morton Games in Santry tonight! Congratulations to all involved!
#MortonGames
Gallery -
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Best of luck to Phil Healy and Ciara Neville in their 60m Semi-Finals Today! ☘️
#TeamIreland
#belgrade2017
#EICH2017
#EuroIndoors
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It’s such a great pleasure to get to work with some of Ireland’s biggest sporting talents! Great to see their achievements recognised on the
#LateLateShow
! Congratulations on the medals
@TomBarr247
,
@keane_ellen
and
@McClenaghanRhys
- superb achievements!
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Great to kick start my indoor season at the AAI Games and National Indoor Combined Events this weekend.
Bit of tension in the trigger finger but great to blow away some cobwebs!
Big year ahead, indoors and out!
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Had great morning shooting Irish Paralympian Greta Streimikyte for Circle K’s “Here for Ireland” Initiative!
Even if I had to improvise slightly after forgetting a step ladder! Doh!
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And thats a wrap for 2020 The Irish Life Health National Senior Track and Field Championships!
It was different, but no less competitive! Congratulations to all involved.
#Athletics
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It’s been a strange old year, and now is a great time to reflect before we look ahead to 2021!
Below are some of my contributions to
@sportsfile
‘s Pictures of the Year, it’s a privilege to work with such a talented group of photographers.
Full gallery -
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Jakob Ingerbrigtsen put his body on the line for a medal.....literally..... but Muktar Edris of Ethiopia took the Men’s 5000m gold!
#DohaWorldChampionships
#WorldAthleticsChamps
#Doha2019
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What a win for Laois!!
Aaron Dunphy’s first half goal proved decisive as
#Laois
held on to knock out
#Dublin
in Portlaoise!
#GAA
#Hurling
#LaoisDublin
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Sarah Lavin through to the semi-finals as current World Champion Nia Ali crashes out.
#WorldAthleticsChamps
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Some of contributions to
@sportsfile
’s Pictures Of The Year 2018 - From Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, to Dublin’s Dalymount Park and Cross Country in Abbotstown - what a year it’s been!
Full gallery here -
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All Smiles on the course inspection this morning - Looking forward to a good day of competition at the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon tomorrow!
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Red Sky at night, Dundalk Delight! -
#DundalkFC
retain the Jim Malone Cup after beating Drogheda 3-1.
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Always nice to get a page 1! 📸
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