It was a real honour to receive my long service award for 25 years as a photographer at University College Dublin from President Professor Orla Feely. I was in good company, nearly 40 other colleagues were honoured.

Great presentations at Rewild Dublin Conference in the F2 Centre Rialto by Finola O’Kane UCD, DCC Parks and Mary Kelly-Quinn UCD

Donore Credit Union & Dublin 8 residents formed Donore Area Sustainable Community (DASC) in 2023. We’re holding a Sustainability Workshop, June 21st, Griffith College to imagine a sustainable future for D8. Everyone’s welcome. We’ll focus on creating a vision and working together to achieve goals.

Mortar and pestle in coconut, Ko Samui, Thailand c.1997

(The Hoban house, daily use) 😄

I feel we need a bit of spring - Crocus flowers in bloom outside @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Architecture, Richview

‘Peace in our time’ comes to mind mediarichlearning.com/wp-content/u...

February, exactly 20 years ago, the weather was a bit worse but we had daffodils @ucddublin.bsky.social

For the weekend that's in it, St Brigid's Crosses photographed in 2010 for the National Folklore Collection

A beautiful morning on @ucddublin.bsky.social Belfield campus. The upper lake is teaming, a heron, a coot, lots of mallards and what seems to be our new swan. He(?) started visiting before Christmas and now seems to be in permanent residence. I've a tough job but someone has to do it!

From a previous ‘great freeze’ the Belfield campus during the big snow of 2010 in @ucddublin.bsky.social

Wishing all my friends and colleagues in @ucddublin.bsky.social a very merry Christmas and a happy 2025!

A win - and really enjoyed Barrets game

wildpostcardproject.com lovely artwork by kids highlighting biodiversity in D8

Another one from the vaults - 2002, a paper conservator working on a manuscript in the UCD Archives

The two most downloaded images from the UCD Image Catalogue in 2024 - to make you long for summer days on campus!

More from the vaults 2017-2023, swans and cygnets always make for good photo opportunities. Since I started in UCD, a breeding pair of swans have nested on the island in the lake. That was up until a few years ago when the cob died, of natural causes I’m told. The dowager pen swins on.

I'm in my 25th year as photographer for @ucddublin.bsky.social. To celebrate I'll post some photos from the archives starting with UCD's most visible structure though not most loved. I’m happy to report that I have been to the top and the view is spectacular!