Images of the Day, selected by Deputy Picture Editor Laura Hutton
NEW HORIZONS: Transition year students at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, Dublin, learning to sail Laser Pico craft at Sutton Dinghy Club, Sutton, Co Dublin. Photograph: Dara MacDónaill
HIGH NOTE: Karla Tracey, from Arklow, Co Wicklow, one of six young Irish opera singers awarded an inaugural Veronica Dunne Bursary at a competition held in MoLi - Museum of Literature Ireland, in Dublin. The bursary offers singers a bespoke programme of vocal and technical training to help futher their careers. Photograph: Mark Stedman
THAT'S POLITICS: Des MacMahon, from Sandymount, Dublin, with a sign declaring "Trump you are a loser" outside the embassy of the United States of America in Dublin on Monday. Joe Biden has been declared the President-elect of the United States, and incumbent Donald Trump has so far not conceded after a bruising election campaign. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
ALL ABOARD THE ARK: Lauren McGrath (15), from Askeaton, Co Limerick, at the newly refurbished Ark Park inclusive play area in the Children's Ark paediatric unit at University Hospital Limerick, pictured with Dr John Twomey, consultant paediatrician at the hospital. Photograph: Brian Arthur
THAT'S THE BUSINESS: Derek Dillon, of Fantasy Lights, sets up the Christmas lights at Johnsons Court in Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
HIGH PERFORMING: Keith Earls in action during Ireland rugby squad training, at the IRFU High Performance Centre, Sport Ireland Campus, Blanchardstown, Dublin. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho
GIFTS OF LOVE: Jess (8) and Finn (3) Walker help to launch Trócaire's Christmas 2020 Gifts of Love campaign, in Rathangan, Co Kildare. The charity has added a new gift this year - a quarantine care kit to help families in 17 countries during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photograph: Mark Stedman
CARRY ON LEADING: US President-elect Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, on Monday, as President Donald Trump continued to refuse to concede his election loss. Mr Biden plowed ahead with the first meeting of a parallel coronavirus task force, initiating an awkward and potentially volatile transition period. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty
FIELDS OF GOLD: A woman harvests marigold flowers ahead of the upcoming Tihar (Diwali) festival in Ichangu Narayan village, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty
LOCKDOWN AFTERMATH: A man smokes outside an office building in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, on Monday. The French economy will take a smaller hit from the new lockdown to contain Covid-19 than it did during the tighter restrictions earlier this year, according to the country's central bank. Photograph: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg
LEFTIST LEADER RETURNS: Bolivia's former president Evo Morales (centre) waves amid a tight crowd, in Villazon, southern Bolivia, on Monday, after returning from Argentina, where he had sought refuge after first fleeing to Mexico. The leftist figurehead ended a year-long exile that followed a failed bid for a controversial fourth term. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty
NATURE'S PLENTY: A bypasser photographs a wall plastered with Virginia creeper in an array of autumnal colours, at the Old Admiralty Building, Westminster, central London. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
