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Images of the Weekend

Selected by picture editor Brenda Fitzsimons

Sun 20 Jan 2019
TRADFEST:John Sheahan of The Dubliners joined by young music fans Kate Mulcahy and Lily Bourke, both from Donabate, ahead of the 2019 TradFest, which starts on January 23rd in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
TRADFEST:John Sheahan of The Dubliners joined by young music fans Kate Mulcahy and Lily Bourke, both from Donabate, ahead of the 2019 TradFest, which starts on January 23rd in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
DERRY BOMB: Forensics officers inspect the remains of the van used as a car bomb on an attack outside Derry courthouse. Dissident republicans are suspected to have carried out the attack. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
DERRY BOMB: Forensics officers inspect the remains of the van used as a car bomb on an attack outside Derry courthouse. Dissident republicans are suspected to have carried out the attack. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
WAR MEMORIAL: More than 1,000 people attended the Soloheadbeg ambush centenary memorial in Co Tipperary. The ambush in which two policemen were killed marked the beginning of the War of Independence. Photograph: John D Kelly
WAR MEMORIAL: More than 1,000 people attended the Soloheadbeg ambush centenary memorial in Co Tipperary. The ambush in which two policemen were killed marked the beginning of the War of Independence. Photograph: John D Kelly
SETTING THE AGENDA: Labour Party chairman Jack O'Connor gives the annual Tom Johnson graveside oration at Clontarf cemetery. Johnson, a former party leader, wrote the Democratic Programme of the first Dáil in 1919. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times
SETTING THE AGENDA: Labour Party chairman Jack O'Connor gives the annual Tom Johnson graveside oration at Clontarf cemetery. Johnson, a former party leader, wrote the Democratic Programme of the first Dáil in 1919. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times
IMPRESS THE JUDGES: Crispin Rodwell, Press Photographers Association of Ireland president (standing right), Dermot O'Shea, former 'Irish Times' picture editor (2nd from left) with the judging panel; photographer Eamonn McCabe and former picture editor of the 'Glasgow Herald' (left). Almost 2,000 images were entered by members of the PPAI for this year's Press Photographer of the Year awards. The judging took place this weekend. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
IMPRESS THE JUDGES: Crispin Rodwell, Press Photographers Association of Ireland president (standing right), Dermot O'Shea, former 'Irish Times' picture editor (2nd from left) with the judging panel; photographer Eamonn McCabe and former picture editor of the 'Glasgow Herald' (left). Almost 2,000 images were entered by members of the PPAI for this year's Press Photographer of the Year awards. The judging took place this weekend. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
FEMFEST: Cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan and journalist Martina Fitzgerald at FemFest, the National Women's Council of Ireland conference in Liberty Hall, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.
FEMFEST: Cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan and journalist Martina Fitzgerald at FemFest, the National Women's Council of Ireland conference in Liberty Hall, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.
HONOUR GUARD: US president Donald Trump follows military leaders, secretary of state Mike Pompeo and a military honour guard into the back of an Air Force transport plane in Dover, Delaware. They were retrieving the remains of Scott Wirtz, a civilian employee of the US Defense Intelligence Agency killed along with three members of the US military during a recent attack in Syria. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters
HONOUR GUARD: US president Donald Trump follows military leaders, secretary of state Mike Pompeo and a military honour guard into the back of an Air Force transport plane in Dover, Delaware. They were retrieving the remains of Scott Wirtz, a civilian employee of the US Defense Intelligence Agency killed along with three members of the US military during a recent attack in Syria. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters
SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHER: Roosters dressed up in costumes are on display during a local chicken beauty pageant in Guang'an, Sichuan province, China. Photograph: Reuters
SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHER: Roosters dressed up in costumes are on display during a local chicken beauty pageant in Guang'an, Sichuan province, China. Photograph: Reuters
LA WOMAN: A protester takes part in the third annual women's march opposing US president Donald Trump in downtown Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images
LA WOMAN: A protester takes part in the third annual women's march opposing US president Donald Trump in downtown Los Angeles, California. Photograph: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images
EL DIA GRANDE: 'Tamborilleros' wearing their uniforms march in the traditional 'La Tamborrada', during 'El Dia Grande', the main day of San Sebastian feasts, in the Basque city of San Sebastian, northern Spain. Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP
EL DIA GRANDE: 'Tamborilleros' wearing their uniforms march in the traditional 'La Tamborrada', during 'El Dia Grande', the main day of San Sebastian feasts, in the Basque city of San Sebastian, northern Spain. Photograph: Alvaro Barrientos/AP
CHOPPED DOWN: Leinster's James Ryan is tackled by Wasps' Tom Cruse and Jake Cooper-Woolley during the province's 37-19 Champions Cup victory at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images via Reuters
CHOPPED DOWN: Leinster's James Ryan is tackled by Wasps' Tom Cruse and Jake Cooper-Woolley during the province's 37-19 Champions Cup victory at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images via Reuters
MACEDONIA ROW: A protester approaches police officers during a demonstration against the agreement reached by Greece and Macedonia to resolve a dispute over the former Yugoslav republic's name, in Athens. Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters
MACEDONIA ROW: A protester approaches police officers during a demonstration against the agreement reached by Greece and Macedonia to resolve a dispute over the former Yugoslav republic's name, in Athens. Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters
BLOODIED AND BRUISED: Badou Jack during his WBA Interim & WBC Silver light heavyweight boxing match against Marcus Browne at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photograph: Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports
BLOODIED AND BRUISED: Badou Jack during his WBA Interim & WBC Silver light heavyweight boxing match against Marcus Browne at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photograph: Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports
BURNING RAGE: Protesters behind a fire as they attend a demonstration of the "yellow vests" movement in Angers, France. Photograph: Stephane Mahe/Reuters
BURNING RAGE: Protesters behind a fire as they attend a demonstration of the "yellow vests" movement in Angers, France. Photograph: Stephane Mahe/Reuters

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ON THE BRINK: People view the coastal erosion damage to Gráinne Hennigan's house on Portrane Beach in north Co Dublin this afternoon. The house began to collapse earlier this week. Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times

Images of the Day

BANDAGE UP: British prime minister Theresa May is welcomed by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker ahead of a meeting on Brexit in Brussels. Photograph: Stephanie Lecocq/EPA

Images of the Day

Irish fashion designer Louise Kennedy launches her new spring-summer 2019 collection at Ballyfin Demesne, Co Laois. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

Images of the Day

Karl Lagerfeld appears at the end of his Spring/Summer women's ready-to-wear fashion show for Chanel during Paris Fashion Week in  October 2012.  Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

Karl Lagerfeld: A life in pictures

Annalise O'Leary, 1 year and 10 months, among the daffodils in Fairview Park, Dublin 3. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times.

Images of the Day

PIT CREW: NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series driver Bryan Dauzat (28) hits a member of his crew in the pits during the NextEra Energy 250 at Daytona International Speedway in Florida, US. Photograph: Jasen Vinlove/USA Today Sports

Images of the Weekend

Central American migrants try to cross the Rio Bravo, which divides the cities of Eagle Pass, in Texas and Piedras Negras, in Coahuila state, Mexico on February 14, 2019. Around 1,700 migrants traveling in caravan reached the US-Mexican border last week. Photograph: Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP

In pictures: US/Mexico border

YOUTH STRIKE: A girl looks on as people take part in a youth strike for climate change demonstration in London on February 15th. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters

Images of the Day

Bereft family members at the Stardust memeorial vigil, Artane, Dublin; 48 people died on St Valentine's day, 1981, in a blaze that ripped through the nightclub. Photograph: Donall Farmer

Images of the Day

NURSES' TALKS: General secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, Phil Ní Sheaghdha, applauds her colleagues as a meeting concludes at the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin. After a series of strikes, and threats of further days of action, the INMO is recommending that its members accept a pay deal. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

Images of the Day

TRIAL: Catalan separatist leaders appear in court at the start of their trial at Supreme Court in Madrid, Spain, February 12th. Photograph: Emilio Naranjo/Pool/Reuters

Images of the Day

UK VISIT: President Michael D Higgins lays a wreath at the Birmingham bombings memorial at the beginning of an official three-day visit to Britain. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Images of the Day

SPANISH NATIONALISTS: Right-wing protesters wave Spanish flags during a demonstration at Plaza de Colon in Madrid against Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez, for making what they say are concessions to Catalan separatists. Photograph:  Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images

Images of the Weekend

Nurses and Midwives marching from Parnell Square to Merrion Square in Dublin during a City Centre protest  as part of the INMO Nationwide strike to improve pay and staffing levels.
Photo: Alan Betson/The irish Times

INMO Protest Rally

Scotland fan Frazer Grant with Ireland fan Sarah Greene. Credit INPHO/James Crombie

Scotland V Ireland

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar greets UK prime mnister Theresa May at the official state guesthouse, Farmleigh House, in Dublin on February 8th Photograph: Maxwell Photography/PA Wire

Images of the Day

 Albert Finney as  Arthur Seaton in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, one of his most famous roles. Photograph: BFI Collections

Albert Finney 1936-2019: A life in pictures

STRIKE: Nurses and midwives protest at the entrance to the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital as part of the INMO Nationwide strike to improve pay and staffing levels. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Images of the Day

GP PROTEST: GPs hold up their stethoscopes during a protest about funding for the health service outside Leinster House in Dublin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Images of the Day

BORDER WORRIES: Prime minister Theresa May speaks with business representatives at the Allstate firm in Belfast about her Brexit plans. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Images of the Day

GET THEM YOUNG: Newly commissioned Defence Forces officers Kimberly King (left) holding Elsie, niece of Leanne Nolan, who is holding her twin sister, Ailbhe, at a commissioning ceremony at Dublin Castle. Photograph Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

Images of the Day

SKATE AGAINST SUICIDE: Skateboarders take part in the first Skate Against Suicide event  in Fairview Skatepark, Dublin, with support from depression support charity Aware. The intention is to hold this event annually. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

Images of the Weekend

Ireland's  Dave Kilcoyne and Quinn Roux at the final whistle.
Photo: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.

Ireland V England

EARLY DOORS: England fan Jenny Clayton is seen in Dublin's Temple Bar, ahead of Saturday's Six Nations match between Ireland and England. Photograph: James Forde/The Irish Times

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