{"id":392868,"date":"2026-04-11T06:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392868\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T06:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T06:32:26","slug":"amateur-underwater-photography-awards-for-sligo-sub-aqua-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392868\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur underwater photography awards for Sligo sub aqua members"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The jellyfish image is by Sin\u00e9ad Keys.<\/p>\n

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Diver image is by Ciaran \u00d3 Murch\u00fa.<\/p>\n

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Ireland\u2019s main Scuba Diving organisation, Diving Ireland, recently announced the results of a photographic competition, with a difference.<\/p>\n

Amateur Photographers were invited to submit underwater photographs, taken in Irish waters, highlighting Ireland\u2019s Marine life and underwater landscapes.<\/p>\n

The competition was divided into five separate categories:<\/p>\n

1) Beginners<\/p>\n

2) People<\/p>\n

3) Landscapes<\/p>\n

4) Macro<\/p>\n

5) Wide.<\/p>\n

This National competition had many entries and the winners were announced recently in thejournal. ie . Among the winners were two candidates with Sligo connections.<\/p>\n

Sligo Sub Aqua Club members, Sin\u00e9ad Keys and former member Ciaran O\u2019Murch\u00fa, now resident in Cork.<\/p>\n

Sin\u00e9ad was awarded second place for her stunning image, in the Macro catagory, whilst Ciaran was awarded third place in the people category, for his magnificent photo of a diver exploring a reef.<\/p>\n

Club member Andy Millar told The Sligo Champion: \u201cThese two worthy winners are both very experienced divers and although we don\u2019t see much of Ciaran these days, we are so lucky to have Sin\u00e9ad here,<\/p>\n

\u201cDiving regularly with Sligo SAC, she takes hundreds of magnificent images during every dive, whether here or abroad, which are posted on the Sligo Sub Aqua Club Facebook page.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Club\u2019s Facebook page is easily accessible and now has hundreds of followers, both in Ireland and other countries, far and wide.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn our Sligo SAC Facebook page we also have more contributors of images of undersea life. Quite prominent among them is Ronan Murray, who specialises in brilliant photos of really tiny creatures and, also, I.Nito, who sends in videos of most of his dives.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo or three other members are now also showing an interest. To view any of these images, just see them on Sligo SAC Facebook page,\u201d Andy added.<\/p>\n

Check out the Sligo Aqua Club Facebook page for more fascinating images of our fascinating Marine life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The jellyfish image is by Sin\u00e9ad Keys. Diver image is by Ciaran \u00d3 Murch\u00fa. Ireland\u2019s main Scuba Diving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,4636,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-392868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-emma-gallagher","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}