Irish Examiner photographer snaps up prestigious award

The Irish Examiner’s Denis Minihane was among the winners at last night’s AIB Photojournalism Awards.

Denis’s eye-catching photograph entitled ‘Nord-Man Fir’ secured second prize in the Nature and Environment Category at the awards ceremony, run by the Press Photographers Association of Ireland (PPAI) to mark the best photojournalism in the country.

The evocative picture, showing a man carrying the fir tree in Co Tipperary, was hailed by judges as “a curious and amusing photograph about a familiar environmental issue”.