Carmel Larkin, a survivor of the Bon Secours mother and baby home, poses with a letter of apology from the Bon Secour Order, at a shrine in Tuam, Co Galway, which was erected in memory of up to 800 children who were allegedly buried at the site of the former home for unmarried mothers run by nuns. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images
Tuam mother and baby home survivor PJ Haverty holds a pair of infant shoes as he visits the shrine which stands on a mass burial site which was formerly part of the Bon Secours mother and baby home. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Walkers on the Irishtown Nature Park at Poolbeg, Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Ambulance at the entrance to the Mater Hospital's emergency deptartment on Eccles Street in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Tents outsdie the Debenhams store on Henry Street in Dublin's city centre. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
A vigil for George Nkencho, which started at St Bridgets Church and went to the Garda Station in Blanchardstown. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Cycling with a dog along Dorset Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Members of the public pass Debenhams placards at the delivery entrance of the Ilac centre on Parnell Street in Dublin's city Centre. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Empty and closed shelves at a supermarket in Dublin's city centre. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Lily Bohan from Dublin City Farm and Ecology Centre, which was awarded €5,000 from the Coca-Cola Thank You Fund, for the development of their project to deliver skills-based learning for vulnerable young people on a community-run city farm in north Dublin. Thirteen community groups working directly with those most at-risk shared a prize fund of €100,000. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
National Guard troops rest in the rotunda of the Capitol during a break in shifts in Washington DC, as the House of Representatives debated the impeachment of Donald Trump for the second time. Photograph: Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Competitors ride during the Stage 10 of the Dakar Rally between Neom and Alula in Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images
The special courtroom for the Rinascita-Scott maxi-trial, in which more than 350 alleged members of Calabria's 'Ndrangheta mafia group and their associates go on trial in Lamezia Terme, Italy. Photograph: Gianluca Chininea/AFP via Getty Images
Protesters from the Nepal Student Union, which is affiliated with the opposition Congress party, shout slogans inside a police vehicle after been detained during a demonstration against the dissolution of the country's parliament, in Kathmandu. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images
A layer of snow lies on old car tyres covering a fodder silo in Kaeselow, Germany. Snow and sudden icy conditions have hindered traffic in Germany's federal state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Photograph: Jens Buettner/dpa via AP
