PICTURE: Home for Christmas! From Hong Kong to Tipperary

Christmas and New Year is family get-together-time, and so it was for Thomas and Mary Whelan, Benedine, Nenagh, when their son Thomas, his wife Angel and grandson Luke, arrived home from Hong Kong, along with their daughters Mary and Pamela, from London and Galway respectively.

In marking the occasion, the joy of the family is captured in this family portrait made for them at their home in Benedine.

Picture: Pádraig Ó Flannabhra