Today, she is the winner of the top prize for the reader’s photographer competition in the Irish Examiner. Carol McCabe, with her image of a tufted duck with baby on board that she took at Bushy Park in Dublin — the overall winner in the Irish Examiner Readers Photography Competition 2025. Carol McCabe from Rathfarnham, Dublin, who has won the Irish Examiner Readers Photography Competition 2025. The Irish Examiner Readers' Photography Competition 2025 runner up: 'On the Fly' — a lesser house fly taking refuge on the wing of a drone fly while it fights off an unwanted March fly. I am delighted.”The Irish Examiner Readers' Photography Competition 2025 runner up: A juvenile sand martin wondering how to catch flies all by itself.

Source: Irish Examiner January 24, 2026 04:13 UTC