Here’s the top nine posts from The Echo’s Instagram in May…
By Hayden Moore
WITH The Echo Newspaper hitting 5,000 followers on Instagram in May, we thought we'd take a look back at some of our top posts from last month.
Here's a sample of nine of our top posts from our Instagram in May...
Rita and Tim O’Looney from Templeogue were snapped at the launch of the ‘Memories are Made of This’, a 1950s-themed show garden by the HSE’s Dementia: Understand Together campaign. The garden showcased at Bloom. (pic: SON Photographic)
After the tragic death of Lyra McKee at the end of April, Tallaght artist Emmalene Blake created this poignant mural of the journalist in Belfast over the May bank holiday weekend.
The most liked photo on The Echo’s Instagram from the past year is this one of Thomas Davis’ Under-8/9s, who played a camogie match in their communion dresses at Kiltipper Road.
This video was taken when firefighters from Tallaght and Dolphins Barn rushed to the scene of a truck on fire close to warehouse units in Walkinstown.
The Echo photographer Paddy Barrett took this snap of the new baby gorilla at Dublin Zoo just after it was announced in May that the baby animal is female.
Timi Sobowale scored the equaliser for Ireland in their 1-1 draw with Belgium in the final group game of the Under-17 European Championships at Tallaght Stadium.
Children from Scoil Chronáin in Rathcoole sent this message to Health Minister Simon Harris in a show of support for their friend, Sam Bailey (9).
For nearly two years Sam, who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), and his family have been campaigning for the Government to release funding Spinraza – the first approved treatment for SMA.
An example of some of the local nature photos that can be found on The Echo’s Instagram account is this one of the delicate Lady’s Smock, also known as the Cuckoo flower to coincide with the Cuckoo’s springtime arrival in Ireland from the African Congo.
One of the most liked posts of the month was this picture of a beautiful rainbow over Springfield in Tallaght that was snapped by the Echo’s Hayden Moore.
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