The Snapper

Photographer Billy Stickland rewinds through 25 years of Ireland ’s award-winning Inpho Sports Agency and tells the stories behind some of his own most memorable shots. Liam Mackey reports.

Sports fans and, for that matter, anyone with even a passing interest in the human condition, are in for a treat if, waiting under the tree for them on Wednesday morning, they find a copy of ‘Heroes’, the newly-published collection of 25 years of work by Ireland’s Inpho Sports Photography Agency.

Herein, courtesy of the agency’s team of ace snappers, are stunning portrait and action shots of many of the greats of the sporting world, from Diego Maradona to Brian O’Driscoll and from Sonia O’ Sullivan to Katie Taylor, as well as some of the defining moments in sports history, freeze-framed for all time.