PICNIC: From left; Nora Hoffmann, Catherine Mahoney, Caoilainn Hoffmann and Laila Mahoney all from Bray enjoy lunch out along the promenade in Bray, Co Wicklow. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
FLOCKING TOGETHER: A newly hatched brood of three Greylag goslings can be seen at the North Beach nature reserve in Arklow, Co Wicklow. Photograph: Garry O'Neill
SQUEEZED READ: Daniel (11) and Eliza (7) Hayes are among thousands who have pledged to find the time and a place to "squeeze in a read" for Ireland Reads Day, February 25th. The national reading day, organised by Libraries Ireland as part of the Keep Well campaign, encourages everyone to get stuck into a book and read for pleasure and wellbeing during Covid-19. Visit irelandreads.ie to pledge to read or find your perfect book. Photograph: Finbarr O'Rourke
DONNELLY: Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly at a press briefing on the update on the Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation Strategy at the Department of Health. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos Dublin
CLOSED UP: Dublin's Moore Street pictured during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
PROTEST: Sheila Byrne (left) from Ringsend and Mags McKinney from Cabra at a Mother and Baby Home protest event outside the Convention Centre in Dublin today. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos Dublin
COURT ACTION: Pauline and James Campbell, parents of the late Tracey Campbell Fitzpatrick of Nurney, Co Carlow, pictured leaving the Four Courts on Wednesday with Bernard Fitzpatrick (background), husband of the late Tracey Campbell Fitzpatrick, after a High Court action. Photograph: Collins Courts
PURIM: A woman dressed as Lego medical personnel walks through the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on February 24th, 2021, a day before the Jewish holiday of Purim. Israel imposed a night-time curfew for three nights to curb the spread of the coronavirus during the Jewish holiday of Purim, the government said. The carnival-like Purim holiday is celebrated with parades and costume parties to commemorate biblical story of the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to exterminate them in the ancient Persian empire, as recorded in the Book of Esther. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty
PRISON RIOTS: Veronica Herreria, relative of a killed inmate, mourns as she waits outside the Sierra Centro Sur prison in Cuenca, Ecuador on February 24th after riots occured. At least 79 inmates died in simultaneous riots blamed on gang warfare at four prisons in Ecuador, officials said Wednesday. Photograph: Fernando Machado/AFP via Getty
MYANMAR: A woman tears as she watches the coffin of Tin Htut Hein during his funeral in Yangon, Myanmar Wednesday. Tin Htut Hein who was acting as a volunteer guard for a neighborhood watch group, that was established because of fears authorities were using criminals released from prison to spread panic and fear by setting fires and committing violent acts, was shot killed on February 20th, night in unclear circumstances, according to several accounts on social media. Photograph: AP
RALLY: A supporter of the Nepal Communist Party poses for a photo with her face painted prior to a celebration rally one day after the Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of Parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal on February 24th. Nepal's Supreme Court on February 23rd ruled that the House of Representatives be reinstated. The lower house of the bicameral parliament was dissolved by prime minister KP Sharma Oli's cabinet on December 20th. Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA
MIGRATION: Cranes flock at the Hula Lake conservation area, north of the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel on Wendesday. More than half a billion birds of some 400 different species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and go back to Europe during the year. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP
BEIRUT: A protester flashes the victory sign, as others burn tires to block a road in front of the house of judge Fadi Akiki during a demonstration calling for the release of anti-government activists detained following riots in northern Lebanon late last month, in Beirut. Photograph: Bilal Hussein/AP
AUSTERITY: A policeman waves flags from a monument commemorating Romanian army engineers killed in the first World War in Bucharest, Romania on Wednesday. Hundreds of Romanian policemen gathered outside the Cotroceni Presidential Palace in protest of planned austerity measures that envisage freezing of salaries in the public sector. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP
Maria Esther Febre (85) sits in her wheelchair after getting a shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine for CvidD-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday as the capital vaccinates people over the age of 80. Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP
ALL YELLOW: People amongst daffodils in St James's Park, London, with forecasters predicting 'the first signs of spring' will be felt across much of the UK in the coming days. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire
