Images of the Day, Selected by Deputy Picture Editor Laura Hutton
ANGELS IN HEAVEN: Memorial items made by historian Catherine Corless on a wall at the Tuam Mother and Baby home burial ground, on Tuesday. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
DARK, DIFFICULT, SHAMEFUL: Historian Catherine Corless, known for her role in exposing the background of Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland, watches from her Tuam home as Taoiseach Micheál Martin speaks live on the findings of the Commission into the homes, which he said revealed a "dark, difficult and shameful chapter of very recent Irish history". Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
'NO EXCEPTION': The Bethany Home Memorial in Mount Jerome Cemetry, Dublin. Across 49 years, the Protestant-run Home admitted 1,584 women and 1,376 children. The Mother and Baby Home commission found that Bethany was “no exception” to the high rates of infant mortality seen in all the other homes until the late 1940s. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
LIGHT IN THE TUNNEL: Michael Farrelly (89), of South Circular Road, Dublin, receiving the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine administered by public health nurse Karen Kennedy at St Mary's Hospital, Phoenix Park. Photograph: Marc O'Sullivan
WINTER TOLL: The area behind the Conway Building on the University College Dublin campus where the remains of homeless man Michael Byrne (71), a familiar face known as The Old Man of Belfield, were found yesterday. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin
SAND AND SEA: Youngsters get the benefit of exercise on Sandymount Strand in Dublin in the afternoon. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin
REALITY OF BREXIT: Tom Talbot, head of Revenue's Customs operations at Dublin Port, speaks at a media briefing on how matters at the port are being handled following the end of the Brexit transition period. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
HOCKEY HOPEFULS: Ireland's Shirley McCay in action against Spain's Berta Boastre (right) during a field hockey friendly ahead of hoped-for participation in the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, in Santomera, Murcia, Spain. The Tokyo Games are supposed to take place July 23rd to August 8th next. Photograph: Marcial Guillen/EPA
GETTING TO GRIPS: Georgia's Tato Grigalashvili (in white) and the Netherlands' Frank De Wit grapple with each other during the men's under 81kg category of the World Judo Masters championship, in the Qatari capital, Doha. Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty
BEGGARS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS: A woman feeds gulls crumbs from a window next to the Charles Bridge, in chilly Prague, Czech Republic. The country is still under a nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19. Photograph: Martin Divisek/EPA
ONE OF A KIND: A young Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in his enclosure at a zoo in Wroclaw, western Poland. Born several days ago, this is the first Indian rhinoceros born in the Wroclaw zoo. Photograph: Maciej Kulczynski/EPA
TAKING IT TO THE CAPITAL: Farmers pose for photographs in Amritsar, India, aboard a tractor before heading towards New Delhi to join other farmers taking part in a sit-in protest against new agricultural laws. The Supreme Court has put a stay on the controversial laws and has formed a four-member panel to hold talks with farmers on the issue. Photograph: Raminder Pal Singh/EPA
ALAMO MOMENT: US President Donald J Trump leaves the White House in Washington, DC, en route to Alamo, Texas to visit the border wall between the US and Mexico. Photograph: Samuel Corum/EPA
