As part of this afternoon’s show, Derek Mooney will be in the National Botanic of Gardens with the 12 finalists in the Eye on Nature photography .
Last year’s winner was Larry Doherty, who took an astonishingly sharp close up of the tiny Orange ladybird, Halyzia sedecimguttata, bóin Dé buí, at Cabragh Wetlands, Thurles, Co. Tipperary.