A place of pilgrimage: Local devotion to St Gobnait the subject of Alys Tomlinson's prize winning work

Alys Tomlinson’s pictures of local devotion to St Gobnait in Baile Mhúirne, Co Cork, helped her win the World Photographer of the Year prize, writes Pet O’Connell

LOURDES attracts around six million visitors per year, while every August more than 10,000 make the pilgrimage to Mount Grabarka, Poland’s biggest Orthodox Christian holy site.