ROAD RAGE: Activists from the Extinction Rebellion environmental action group block traffic on Bachelor's Walk to highlight concerns about climate change. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell

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FLY PAST: Herve Olivieri, Member of ONE and Jaques Mention, Veterans of the Algerian and Tunisian War watch as the Air Corp perform a fly over during the annual National Day of Commemoration Ceremony, to honour all those Irishmen and Irishwomen who died in past wars or on service with the United Nations, held in The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, as well as at six locations across Ireland. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE: Indian villagers cross flood waters on boats in Ashighar village in the flood affected Morigaon district of Assam, India. According to the media reports floods from monsoon rain has affected more than 400,000 people in eleven districts of Assam state. PHOTOGRAPH: str/epa

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SAILS PITCH: Boats are seen in Dublin Bay on the opening day of the Volvo Dún Laoghaire Regatta. Photograph: David Branigan/Oceansport

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Brendan Grace at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, in 2001. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Brendan Grace 1951-2019: A life in pictures

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: Undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas addresses the crowd during the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

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Jarlath Farrell from Tuam, Galway with the Farmers protest outside the Dail following the announcement of the Mercosur trade agreement.The Beef Plan Movement is organising the protest inviting numerous other farming and agricultural organisations to take part.Under the Mercosur deal, announced two weeks ago after some 20 years of negotiations, the EU has agreed to accept 99,000 tonnes of South American beef into its market each year, which farmers claim could cost the Irish beef sector up to €750 million annually. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

Farmers Protest, Dublin

SONG PARTY: Stevie Wonder and his band play the 3Arena in Dublin on Tuesday night. Photograph: Aidan Crawley

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MUSEUM: Sophia O'Brien (5) and Cora Gleason (6) enjoy a visit to the Cabinet of Wonders at the Natural History Museum in Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.

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PULL AHEAD: The Lakehill team from Mayo takes part in an Irish Tug of War Association event in Ballinastoe, Roundwood, Co Wicklow. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times

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UCD students release a newborn fawn after tagging, weighing and measuring it as part of the annual tagging programme of Phoenix Park's newborn fallow deer fawns. Between 100-120 fawns will be born during a four week period through May and June and the team's aim is to number, tag and health-check them all. Photograph by Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times

Fawn tagging at the Phoenix Park

Revellers enjoying the 3 day Forever Young 80s Music festival, at Palmerstown House Estate, near Naas. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

Forever Young Festival

The Eagles performing at the 3Arena, Dublin, on Saturday. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times

The Eagles live in Dublin: in pictures

Westlife perform in front of 75,000 fans in Croke Park on Friday night, the first of two Dublin gigs on their 20th anniversary tour. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times

Westlife live in Dublin: in pictures

Westlife perform before 75,000 fans in Croke Park on Friday night, the first of two Dublin gigs on their 20th anniversary tour. Photograph Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times

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APOLOGY: Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (left) speaking to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar before Mr Varadkar apologised for remarks he made in the Dáil comparing Fianna Fáil Leader Micheal Martin to a secretly sinning priest. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

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SUMMER SAND: People enjoying the good weather at the Forty Foot, Sandycove, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

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Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson meets DUP leader Arlene Foster at Stormont Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images

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VISUAL ART EXPERIENCE: Belle Boss (6) of Cabra; Sam McGeough (8) of Inchicore, and Katie Louisa McGeough (10), at The Ark to launch a walk-through visual art experience for young audiences of just four at a time. Scrapefoot is created by ANU co-artistic director Owen Boss, with a creative team including Carl Kennedy and Ciaran Bagnall. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times

Please sir...can we have some more?

CHAMPIONS: Wexford's Liam Cassin celebrates at the final whistle with his teammates following their victory over Kilkenny in the Leinster Minor Hurling Championship Final in Croke Park on Sunday. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho

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IN THE NAME OF LOVE: Proud participants in the 2019 Dublin Pride parade celebrating LGBT+ identity pass the Daniel O'Connell monument on O'Connell Street, Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson

Full of Pride in Dublin

PRIDE IN APPEARANCE: A street trader's wares are reflected through a looking glass on Grafton Street, ahead of Dublin Pride. Photograph: Fran Veale

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REMEMBERING MANUS: A view of the funeral of Manus Kelly at St Columba's Church, Co Donegal. Photograph: North West Newspix

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MOVERS AND LAKERS: Members of the Lakers, a social, recreational and sports club for people with intellectual disabilities, celebrate after the opening of their new facility in Bray, Co Wicklow. Mandy Finlay (above), takes a twirl with Minister for Health Simon Harris. A fire had destroyed their original premises in October 2018. Photograph: Maxwellphotography.ie

The Lakers rise again...

NO-SWIM ZONE: A view of the rocky shore at Sandycove in Dublin on Tuesday, where a swimming ban was put in place following a discharge of waste water. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council said algal growth rather than sewage was responsible. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

Swimming ban in Dublin...

MONSOON SEASON? A woman crosses Northhumberland Road in Dublin during particularly heavy rain. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Monsoonal rains in Dublin?

Bryan McCrystal, Alistair Brownlee and Markus Thomschke spray champagne on the podium of the Ironman in Co Cork. Photograph: Oisin Keniry/INPHO

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Summer solstice celebrated at dawn on the Hill of Tara, the ancient ceremonial and burial site, near Skryne, Co Meath. According to tradition, it was the inauguration place and seat of the High Kings of Ireland, and it also appears in Irish mythology. Dippy, centre, watching the solstice dawn. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

Summer solstice celebrations

JIG TIME: A troupe led by dancer Amy-Mae Dolan takes part in a Riverdanceathon in front of the Gaiety Theatre. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

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WELCOME VISITORS: Members of Waterford Integration services Suha Abdel, Obianuju Ekedozie, Osas Iyamu Usideme and Funmi Ganiyu at Áras an Uachtaráin for a garden party with President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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Singer Pink performing at the RDS, Dublin, on Tuesday during the Irish leg of her Beautiful Trauma World Tour. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times

Pink live in Dublin: In pictures

AWW: A swan and cygnets on the Royal Canal in Phibsborough. Photograph: Tom Honan

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MEMORIAL PROTEST: A protester against the controversial extradition Bill in Hong Kong wears a yellow raincoat to pay tribute to another protester who died after falling from scaffolding at the Pacific Place complex. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters

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Bon Jovi fans aren't deterred by the heavy rain. Photo: Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times

Bon Jovi at the RDS

PHILOMENA'S PASSING: Ian Longdin, from Manchester, embraces Gerry Jago (in green jacket), a former roadie with Thin Lizzy, at Stafford's Funeral Home in Portmarnock, Co Dublin, for the repose of the remains of Philomena Lynott, mother of Thin Lizzy singer Phil Lynott. Photograph: Tom Honan

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James Joyce lookalike John Shevlin strikes a suitable pose outside the James Joyce Centre, North Great George's Street, Dublin, for Bloomsday. Photograph: Tom Honan

Bloomsday 2019

FOLLOW SUIT: Luke (7) and Michael O'Dwyer (8) at a garden party at Áras an Uachtaráin to highlight the issue of gender-based violence. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

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Extraction I by Fionn McCann

A collection of 10 rare images in limited editions

ARTIST: Orangutan Nenette holds her colour palette and a blank canvas to show her talents ahead of her upcoming 50th birthday at the zoo of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, France. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters

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Elton John performs at the 3Arena in Dublin as part of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times

Elton John live in Dublin: In pictures

BETTER THAN NOTHING: A woman walks past a mural in the rain on Montpellier Hill, Dublin. Photograph: Fran Veale

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From left, Carol Betera, Stephen Cunningham, Eleanor Martha, Leontien Friel and Emma Kenny, joined climate-change activists from Extinction Rebellion Ireland, acting as 'politicians' pouring blood over 'innocents' as a gesture to symbolise the fate facing children growing up in Ireland today if action is not taken to address climate change, outside Leinster House. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

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Ciara Kellegher of Divine Word NS, Marley Grange (L) is challenged by Aisling Mac Donncha of Scoil Naithi, Baile an tSaoir, during the Corn Haughey Shield Final at Croke Park. Photograph: Piaras O Midheach/Sportsfile

Allianz Cuman na mBunscol Finals 2019

WOMEN FOR ELECTION: Ciairín de Buis (right), chief executive of Women for Election, with (from left) Alison Cowzer, Emer Tóibín and Orlaith Carmody at the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to train women for political office, at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. The recent local elections saw 225 women take council seats. Photograph: Tom Honan

Women on the path to power...

Ann Reilly. - This photo series is in association with St Michael's House in Dublin.

Portrait series of adults with intellectual disabilities

FAR REACHING: From left are Eileen Tobin, Kathy McDonagh and Marie Byrne, of the Kilcross Ladies Club, Sandyford, at a Dance Theatre of Ireland performance entitled Vintage Youth, at the Age Well Expo 2019 at Leopardstown Racecourse, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan

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James Hetfield of Metallica on stage at Slane. Photograph: Arthur Carron

Metallica live at Slane: In pictures

HERO'S WELCOME: Katie Taylor stands before the crowd attending her welcome home parade in her native Bray, Co Wicklow on Friday evening. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho

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PRESIDENTIAL GREETING: US president Donald Trump greets a second World War veteran during the commemoration ceremony for the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy, France. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Rueters

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FOR OLD TIMES' SAKE: Veteran Jock Hutton (94) from Stirling, lands after completing his tandem parachute jump with the Red Devils over Sannerville, France, during commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

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TIANANMEN SQUARE: Thousands gather at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on the 30th anniversary of the crackdown at Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times

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US president Donald Trump inspects an honour guard during a welcome ceremony in Buckingham Palace, London. Photograph: Carlos Barria

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A general view from Bloom on the last day of the event in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Photo: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.

Bloom

Race-ready contestants at the start of the Women's Mini Marathon. Photograph: Tom Honan

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The Women's Mini Marathon gets under way in Dublin. Photo: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.

In pictures : The 37th Women's Mini Marathon in Dublin

EGG HEAD: Harrison Brack-Sinnott takes a look at David McGlynn's piece 'Elevated Breakfast' at a show at the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, Co Wicklow. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

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RECORD SEEKERS: A Clap on the Back world record attempt led by Willow Park School took place in Blackrock, Co Dublin on Thursday. Photograph: David Branigan/Oceansport

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THE RED SEA: People gather in front of the sea, coloured red, during a pilot whale hunt in Torshavn, Faroe Islands. Photograph: Andrija Ilic/AFP/Getty Images

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GARDA'S FUNERAL: The remains of Garda David Hearne, who died while off-duty in a diving incident some 15km off Hook Head on Saturday after he got into difficulties, are carried into Our Lady, Star of the Sea Church in Duncannon, Co Wexford, at his funeral. Photograph: Mary Browne

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ONE TO WATCH: Winning designer Heather Gilroy (right, age 22), from Balbriggan, with model Aine O'Gorman, wearing an outfit from a winning collection entitled Among The Flat Pink Roses. Ms Gilroy has won the Brown Thomas Designer to Watch bursary for 2019, run in conjunction with the National College of Art and Design. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

A Designer to Watch, 2019...

The Green Party's Ciaran Cuffe congratulates Hazel Chu, (Pembroke) at the Dublin count centre in the RDS Dublin. Photograph: Dara MacDonaill/The Irish Times

Election aftermath

Some of the 3,000 participants during the Skoda tour de Connemara which took in sights from Clifden, Roundstone, Maam Valley, Killary Harbour and Letterfrack during the 140km and 80km routes. Photograph: Cathal Noonan

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King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden visit an eco-farm on the Burren, with Dr Brendan Dunford, manager of the Burren programme, Vincent Keane, farmer and Joe Burke, meat and livestock manager, Bord Bia. Photograph: Julien Behal

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SHEER SCALES: Children meet a rhino iguana as part of the Bealtaine Living Earth Festival organised by Calmast WIT. Photograph: Patrick Browne

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Third prize in Category G was won by Ryan King (9), a student at St Ita's School, Drogheda, for his work entitled A Ship's Voyage.

Winners: Texaco Children's Art Competition

WALK TALL: Abigail Kelleher (3) onboard tall ship the Lord Nelson, embarking on the Tall Ships Challenge. Abigail's grandfather, Paralympian John Twomey, is part of the ship's combined crew of 25 wheelchair users and able-bodied people, who set sail from Cork Harbour to Poole in the UK. Photograph: Daragh McSweeney/Provision

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I LOVE DUBLIN: A Polish service-user displays a badge at Merchant's Quay Ireland, a drop-in centre for homeless people which marked World Day for Cultural Diversity by inviting men and women to drop by for food and music. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

I love Dublin...

ROUGH AND TUMBLE: Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage after being hit with a flying milkshake after arriving for a campaign event in Newcastle, Britain. Photograph: Scott Heppell/Reuters

Farage is fuming...

BLUEBELLS: Sisters Olivia (7) and Zara (6) Duff, from Clondalkin, attend St Luke's Cancer Care hospital's annual Bluebell Garden event in Rathgar. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

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Leinster's Robbie Henshaw tackles Dave Kilcoyne of Munster Photo : INPHO/Dan Sheridan

Leinster V Munster

Abderrahmane Raguaragu, centre, from Ballinteer at his son's funeral at the Muslim cemetery in Newcastle, Co Dublin. Azzam Raguragui (18) was stabbed to death in Dundrum, Co Dublin, last week. Photograph: James Forde/The Irish Times

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ON A ROPE: Canadian aerial acrobats, Molly Keczan and Glory Dearling from The Silver Starlets, have swung into Dublin in style to launch Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular festival. They performed aerial poses together from their 25 foot tall rig against the backdrop of the Poolbeg Power Station towers. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

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HIT THE HAY: Katie Millar with Gareth Elliott at the opening day of the Balmoral Show outside Lisburn, Co Antrim. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend Ireland's largest agricultural and food show, over the next four days. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

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Photograph: Zhou Mi

Tibetan Nomads - Snapshots from a different life

A guard of honour was formed by members of Drogheda Wheelers, Navan Road Club and two cycling clubs in Ashbourne, at the funeral of Sean Lynch in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Rathfeigh, Co. Meath. He died after a cycling accident during a race in which he was competing earlier this month. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

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'GIVE US A LOOK': Brendan Carney from Dublin reading his book in Merrion Square. Photograph: Tom Honan

Images of the Day

Doris Day in costume on the set of Calamity Jane. Photograph: Ed Clark/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Doris Day: A life in pictures

Smoke from flares engulfs the pitch, delaying the kick-off of the German Bundesliga match between Eintracht Frankfurt and FSV Mainz 05 in Frankfurt. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA

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Owen Farrell celebrates as Billy Vunipola of Saracens scores his try. Photo: Andrew Fosker/Inpho

Champions Cup Final

Participants in the Darkness Into Light event in Clontarf, Dublin, in aid of Pieta House. as part of the global fight against suicide and self-harm. Photograph: Dara Dónaill/ The Irish Times

Darkness into Light event

PERFECT 10: Action from the practice session ahead of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at Carlisle Pier in Dún Laoghaire Harbour. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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A Soviet army veteran attends a traditional meeting point near Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Russia marked the 74th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in the second World War. Photograph: Yuri Kochetkov/EPA

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RIGHT TO RESPITE: Michael Fallon, from Dublin, joins a carers' protest calling for better home-care packages and respite for carers, outside Leinster House, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

Fight for your right to respite...

BLOOMING LOVELY: Adrianna Fayiah (5), Tallaght; Eoghan Fox (7), Blessington, and Florence Marlow Ward (4), Walkinstown, at Bord Bia's launch of the 13th annual Bloom gardens showcase, taking place in the Phoenix Park from Thursday, May 30th to Monday, June 3rd this year. Photograph: Alan Betson

Blooming lovely...

FANCY FOOTWORK: From left, brothers Terrence (7), Timothy (9) and Troy Ermitano (10), from Dublin, hanging out in the Phoenix Park in Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan

Hanging out in the Phoenix Park...

ARMS AROUND MOORE STREET: Protesters linking arms in front of numbers 14-17 Moore Street, buildings which have been a centre of a long dispute over whether they should be classed national monuments given their significance in 1916. The Save Moore Street Campaign has called for the preservation of the entire street after recent design concept proposed to demolish two buildings on the terrace. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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Ozark, a puppy in training for the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind, gets a closer look in the window of Deizy's Dog Grooming Salon in Monaghan town. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Images of the Day

MIDSUMMER: Launching the 2019 Cork Midsummer Festival programme, running from June 13th-23rd, is actress and writer Irene Kelleher pictured at Nicholas Street, Cork city. Ms Kelleher's new play, Gone Full Havisham, is one of over 45 theatre, literature, dance, circus, visual art and participative events taking place in venues and locations across the city at this year's Festival. Photograph: Clare Keogh

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The Weatherman: David Meskill, from the book Irish Working Lives by photographer Eric Luke and writer Marie Louise O'Donnell

Irish Working Lives

THE FINAL FURLONG: Jockey Ruby Walsh with his wife Gillian and daughters Isabelle, Elsa and Gemma after announcing his retirement at Punchestown. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho

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THAT'S MY GIRL: Dawn Leadon-Bolger (left) with her mother Bernie Leadon-Bolger, from Baltinglass, Co Wicklow, at the Punchestown Racing Festival in Co Kildare. Photograph: Tom Honan

Racing at Punchestown...

JUSTICE AT LAST: Annie Lafferty is embraced after leaving the Central Criminal Court in Dublin after her father Maurice Lafferty (50), of Corcullen, Castlefin, Donegal, was sentenced to 11 years in jail following his guilty plea to raping her as a teenager. Photograph: Tom Honan

Justice at last...

STORM HANNAH: Large waves crash against the cliffs in Doolin, Co Clare, during Storm Hannah. Photograph: Dónal Glackin

In pictures: Storm Hannah, London Marathon and Sri Lanka unrest

AFTERMATH: Funeral banners hang across the street in front of St Anthony's Shrine, days after a string of suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels across the island on Easter Sunday, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

In Pictures: Sri Lankan funeral banners, Palestinian protests and Dublin's first urban farm

A member of 324 Squadron during the Anzac Day Dawn Service at Coogee Beach in Sydney, Australia. Photograph: Stephen Saphore/Reuters

Images of the Day

A mourner wearing a Gryffindor scarf holds an order of service as she arrives for the funeral service of murdered journalist Lyra McKee in St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

In pictures: Lyra McKee's funeral, conflict in Palestine and a new baby elephant