Louise Parkes and her husband Tony were presented with The Irish Field Special Recognition Award for the promotion of equestrian sport.
They received the accolade at the Irish Horse World Awards lunch in the Palmer North Golf Club, The K Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare, Ireland on 7 March 2022.
Journalist and broadcaster Louise Parkes is the equestrian correspondent of Ireland’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, The Irish Independent, and contract writer for the world governing body for equestrian sport, the Swiss-based Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) for many years. Tokyo was her seventh Olympic Games. She filed her first report for The Irish Field in May 1984.
Louise has also worked as a freelance reporter for many high-profile publications including the London Times, Horse and Hound magazine, L’Annee Hippique and Horse International and is co-author of Ambassadors on Horseback, a book detailing the history of the world-famous Irish Army Equitation School.
From the Isle of Wight, Tony Parkes is one of Ireland’s leading professional photographers. He has covered national and international equestrian events across the world since May 1980. Tony's extensive equestrian photographic archive includes over 800,000 35mm film negatives and this is in addition to all the images shot on digital since 2005.
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