Twins, Aine(left) and Emer Quinn(right) eat sweets in the local parish hall after making their First Holy Communion in St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Cushendall, 2010.
Gardai Damian Mulkearns (L) stands beside the ballot box next to presiding officer Hugh O'Donnell, on the island of Inishfree ahead of European and local elections, 2009.
Charlease English looks at the coffin carrying the remains of her father Tommy, a member of a Loyalist paramilitary group who was murdered by fellow Loyalist paramilitary members. Belfast, 2000.
A duck, pheasants and rabbits hang from a clothes line before being plucked, skinned and frozen at Garron Point near the village of Carnlough, 2010.
A member of Femen protests against Ireland’s abortion laws in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, 2013.
Children play under Dissident Republican graffiti in Craigavon, 2009.
A Fallow Deer and crow pictured in Phoenix Park, Dublin, 2005.
DUP leader Ian Paisley reacts during an interview where he demanded photographic evidence of IRA decommissioning at a press conference in Belfast, 2005.
Nationalist youths riot in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, 2010.
A woman pushes her pram towards an ice cream vendor on Portstewart Strand beach, 2009.
A woman takes out her garbage beside a mural depicting a British soldier knocking down the door of a house with a sledge hammer in Derry, 2010.
A man rides through the flood waters in Athlone as water levels continue to rise in the County Westmeath town, 2009.
A police officer is tended to by a colleague after Loyalist protesters attacked the police with bricks and bottles as they waited for a Republican parade to make its way through Belfast City Centre, 2013.
Loyalist Paramilitaries parade around a bonfire in the Shankill area of Belfast, 2000.
A red fox hangs on a fence in the Glens of Antrim after being shot by hunters who provide a service to farmers who regard the animal as vermin, 2009.
Children walk to school under armed guard during the Holy Cross dispute in Belfast, 2001.
The Waterways, an empty and unsold housing development, in the village of Keshcarrigan, County Leitrim. During the economic boom, Irish developers attempted to cash in, building tens of thousands of houses. However, poor planning decisions and the global recession resulted in a large number of estates being abandoned, unoccupied or unfinished, 2012.
A dissident republican parades through Derry's Creggan housing estate on his way to a Republican Memorial service in the city, 2010.
Orange men march outside Drumcree Parish Church, Portadown, 2009. Their yearly parade which at one point was attended by 50,000 supporters was stopped from travelling along the Nationalist Garvaghy Road in 1999.
Irish Snooker legend Alex Higgins pictured in Palmerstown House, County Kildare a few months before his death, 2010 .
Protestant Youths guard a bonfire in Ballymena, 2010.
A Nationalist youth throws a petrol bomb at members of the security forces in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast after a Orange Order parade made it's way through the area, 2010.
A man makes his way home with his shopping through heavy snow in the village of Cushendall , 2010.
Members of the Loyalist Paramilitary group the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) take part in a show of strength on Belfasts Shankill road, 2002.
A man checks his mobile phone beside a loyalist paramilitary mural in the Waterside area of Derry, 2013.
An member of a INLA colour party shoots a volley of shots over the coffin of a murdered colleague in West Belfast. 2001.
A boy tethers his horse in front of derelict flats in the Ballymun area of North Dublin, 2010.
A member of the Protestant Orange Order prays on a hill beside Drumcree Parish church, Portadown, 2004.
Members of the PSNI stand beside a burning car following riots in Belfast, 2013.