Death on wheels - October: An undertaker loads a child's coffin on to the back of a courier's motorcycle in Uganda, east Africa
By George - May: George Lee is caught on camera by a fan during the Dublin South by-election
Knuckle brother - February: Kenny Egan in the Sports Council gym in the National Stadium
The west's afloat - November: Hugh O'Donnell tries to reach his flooded house in Ballinasloe, Co Galway
City of blinding lights - July: U2 play Croke Park in Dublin
Some are more equine than others - January: Horsetrainer Willie Mullins at his stables in Co Carlow
Party's over - December: Siptu's Jack O'Connor at a press conference after the social partnership talks broke down
Snow patrol - A soldier on manoeuvres in the Curragh, Co Kildare, in February
Help at hand - September: a victim of the Luas/Dublin Bus crash on O'Connell Street is attended to by an ambulanceman minutes after the accident took place
Grief stricken - September: the father and sisters of boxer Darren Sutherland with Darren's Olympic medal on the day his body returned to the family home in Navan
Goodbye to the boy - October: mourners at Stephen Gately's funeral
Shock and solidarity - January: a Dublin protest at the Israeli bombardment of Gaza
Mark of a killer - October: Mark Nash is driven away after being charged with the murder of two women in Grangegorman, Dublin, in 1997
A call to prayer - August: a Muslim at prayer in the Anwar e-Madina mosque on Talbot Street, Dublin
Award-winning Sunday Tribune photographer Mark Condren captured the significant events, and some of the smaller moments, of 2009, at home and abroad. Here is a selection of his best work