Jade McMeekin-Quinn WEDS23OCT24
s is nearly always the case with our annual photography 
competition, the counting of the votes and the late night drunken barneys with the judges meant that the final count took about two weeks more than it should have.
s is nearly always the case with our annual photography 
competition, the counting of the votes and the late night drunken barneys with the judges meant that the final count took about two weeks more than it should have.As is, when we think about it further, always the case.
It didn’t help that there were 15 serious contenders for the Greystones Rocks 2024 crown this year.
The likes of Ian McCann’s Chasing The Sun, Enya Ozcelik’s Aurora Couple, Karen Connolly’s Love Is In The Air, Gurpreet Chaina Hayes’ Endless Days, Sarah Stewart’s Into The Trees, David Roche’s And It Stoned Me, Louise McLeod’s Blue Marina and Johanna McFall’s The Future Is Orange all garnered a humungous amount of public votes.
And then the judges were pretty dang impressed by the likes of Marc Diamond’s Home Fires Burning, Andreas Roth’s Back Flip, Eva Brady O’Reilly’s Watching The Sunrise and Moira Gannon’s Swimming In The Rain, all capturing, says one, true reflections of life in this blessed little town of ours.
The one pic that got both the public and the judges singing in perfect harmony though was Jade McMeekin-Quinn’s stunning South Beach Soothes My Soul.
The one pic that got both the public and the judges singing in perfect harmony though was Jade McMeekin-Quinn’s stunning South Beach Soothes My Soul.Here’s a pic that could make an ex-Pat or an ex-Mary cry, capturing what looks like a perfect day in Greystones, sand under your feet, sun on your face, and a happy dog running like a loon on the horizon. Bliss.
Congrats to all the entries this year (the full-line is viewable here in hi-res) and even bigger congrats to those listed above. It was a truly impressive line-up for 2024, and one that the late, great Brian Keeley – who inspired the annual photography competition – would no doubt approve of.
Thanks too to Derrick and the McGovern Estate gang for sponsoring once again. You can find out more about these happy house hunter-gatherers here.
Below are some of the highlights of Greystones Rocks 2024. You can jump back through the years right here.
Watching The Sunrise by Eva Brady O’Reilly
Marina Moon by Joanne Hunt
Swimming In The Rain by Moira Gannon
Chasing The Sun by Ian McCann
The Future Is Orange by Johanna McFall
And It Stoned Me by David Roche
Sunrise Bear by Nicola Kavanagh
Back To Schoal by Mark Lambert
Passing Greystones by Tristan Luthe Neary
People Get Ready by Mark Barry
Back Flip by Andreas Roth
Aurora Couple by Enya Ozcelik
Love Is In The Air by Karen Connolly
Darcy’s Aurora by Louis Duffy Barrett
Marina Gets Some Shut Eye by Simon Moore
Home Fires Burning by Marc Diamond
Endless Days by Gurpreet Channa Hayes
Yachts At Rest by Alan Keane
Sea & Stones by Stephen O’Connell
Roost by Ian Alba
Mid-Flight by Ling Ling Longmore
Centred by David Dwyer
As The Crow Tries by Ciaran Malone
Rainbow Over South Beach by Peter Patrick
Paradise Found by Kevin Doyle
Hope by David Daly
Harbour Morning by Diane Sutton
Darkness Into Light by Liz Cusack
Into The Trees by Sarah Stewart
Blue Marina by Louise A McLeod
Chasing The Sun by Larry Doyle
South Beach Soothes My Soul by Jade McMieekin-Quinn