Amateur photographer captures ‘once in a lifetime’ fireball photo over Dalkey

Last night amateur photographer Graham Harkness was taking photographs of the beautiful night sky over Dalkey, Dublin - when he managed to capture the shot professional astronomers can only dream of.

The talented 31-year-old Harkness had perched himself in Dylan's Park, Dalkey - right on the coast - in order to pursue his photography habit after the extremely cold night offered up prefect conditions to shoot.

Graham told breakingnews.ie that he pointed his camera out over the Irish Sea towards Dalkey Island - at around 10.30pm last night - in order to get as many stars in his picture as possible, but little did he know the rarity of what he was about to catch.