“People just looked at a girl sitting with a cup, they just looked at a tent. They didn’t know what was going on, they didn’t know the story."

James Mahon gave Antoinette Foley a fiver one day in late 2021, sparking a deep friendship – and a photography project.

A POWERFUL new exhibition confronting addiction in small-town Ireland will launch at the Art House in Athy on Saturday (19 July) at 3. 30pm, with acclaimed Athy photographer John Minihan.

“It was a long journey, hard, suffering, but I wouldn’t change a thing"