{"id":494594,"date":"2026-06-11T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494594\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:46:12","slug":"limerick-photographer-honoured-at-world-food-photography-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494594\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick photographer honoured at World Food Photography Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"696\" height=\"1044\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Photography-award-HC_Fortnum-Mason-Food-at-the-Table_Kirsty-Lyons_Irish-Oysters-and-a-Pint-of-Stout_.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Photography award - HC_Fortnum &amp; Mason Food at the Table_Kirsty Lyons_Irish Oysters and a Pint of Stout_Hi-Res\"\/>Fortnum Mason Food at the Table &#8211; Kirsty Lyons.<\/p>\n<p>A LIMERICK photographer has been singled out for mention in this year\u2019s World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem. <\/p>\n<p>Limerick native Kirsty Lyons was Highly Commended in the Fortnum and Mason Food at the Table category for her photo of a creamy pint served alongside a generous plate of Irish oysters with shallot dressing at The Pumphouse in rural Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsty\u2019s image was selected from nearly 9,000 entries submitted from over 50 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Irish photographer Al Higgins (Dublin) was awarded second place in the World of Drinks while Julia Dunin (Mayo) was Highly Commended in the Unearthed Food for Sale category.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a onclick=\"\" class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTcyLDIsMSw2MA==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.auralimerick.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onload=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aura-mpu.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    Signup for the Limerick Post newsletter&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Fortnum Mason Food at the Table &#8211; Kirsty Lyons. A LIMERICK photographer has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[24958,307,304,305,306,11913,308,93,61,60,212206,209910],"class_list":["post-494594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-achievement","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-award","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirsty-lyons","tag-world-food-photography-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494594","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=494594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}