FOOTBALL FINAL: Dublin's Sinead Finnegan and Denise McKenna celebrate after beating Mayo in the Women’s Senior All-Ireland Football Championship Final at Croke Park, Dublin. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

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Kate Fitzgibbon (left) and Aoife Curran of Dublin celebrate following thewin over Mayo. Photograph: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

All-Ireland Ladies' football finals

RAINY PLOUGH: From left are Rebecca Taylor, Nadine Kelly and Katie Flaherty, all from Ballinasloe, Co Galway, having fun in the rain at the National Ploughing Championships at Screggan, Tullamore, Co Offaly. Photograph: Tom Honan

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Edward Dowse, who is 85 and from Wicklow, competing in the special horse class on the third and final day of the National Ploughing Championships 2017, in Screggan, near Tullamore in Co Offaly. All photographs: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

In Pictures: Day three of the National Ploughing Championships

Rebecca Taylor, Nadine Kelly and Katie Flaherty, from Ballinasloe, Co Galway, on the second day of the National Ploughing Championships at Screggan, Co Offaly. All photographs: Tom Honan/The Irish Times

In Pictures: Day two of the National Ploughing Championships

Rescuers, firefighters, policemen, soldiers and volunteers remove rubble and debris from a flattened building in search of survivors after a powerful quake in Mexico City. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP

In Pictures: Massive rescue operation following earthquake in Mexico City

Seamus (right) and Moss Trant, from Curraheen, Tralee, Co Kerry, during the U40 Horse Plough Class on day one of the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore, Co Offaly. All photographs: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

In pictures: The National Ploughing Championships

HIDE AND SEEK: Molly Brown (6 months) from Donabate in the Sam Maguire at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, during a visit by the victorious Dublin team. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

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Millie Bobby Brown of Stranger Things in Calvin Klein by Appointment. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Emmys 2017: 10 red carpet looks that caught the eye

Dublin celebrate after beating Mayo by a point in the All Ireland Football Final Photo: INPHO/Tommy Dickson

All Ireland Football Finals

JOY: Philly McMahon on the shoulders of John Small after Dublin beat Mayo in the All Ireland senior football championship final at Croke Park. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

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FACE-OFF: Mayo-supporting pupils from Scoil Mhuire CBS, Griffith Avenue, Dublin, who have family in Mayo - Stephen Murphy, Ruairi Kernan, Tomas Thornton and Oran Malone - surrounded by Dublin-supporting pupils ahead of the All-Ireland football final between Dublin and Mayo. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

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REMEMBERING DONLEAVY: File image from March 2014 of writer JP Donleavy at his home in Levington Park, Mullingar, Co Westmeath. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

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15/7/1997: A Titan rocket lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the Cassini space probe enroute to the planet Saturn. On September 15th, Nasa's scientists will send Cassini into a suicidal 70,000mph dive into Saturn, ending a 20-year mission and preventing any Earth microbes from contaminating Saturn's moons. Photograph: Pierre DuCharme/Reuters

Cassini mission to Saturn (1997-2017)

JP Donleavy at his home, Levington Park, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, in 2014. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

JP Donleavy 1926-2017: A life in pictures

RESULTS DAY: Adam Dowling and Lee Cassin receive their Junior Cert results, at St Kevin's College, Ballygall Road, Finglas, Co Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

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The insiders by Qing Lin (China): Each anemone fish has an extra pair of eyes inside its mouth – those of a parasitic isopod that enters as a larva via the fish’s gills, moves to its mouth and attaches its legs to the base of the tongue. Finalist 2017, Under Water Photograph: Qing Lin/2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

In pictures: Wildlife Photographer of the Year finalists

Women and children prepare for Cahirmee Horse Fair, Buttevant, Co Cork. Photograph: Elinor Wiltshire

‘Photo Detectives’ exhibition reveals striking images of Irish life

ARGENTINIAN EXILES: Herman and Candelaria Zapp with their children Pampa (aged 15, born in North Carolina in US), Tehue (12, born in Argentina), Paloma (9, Vancouver Island) and Wallaby (8, Australia). The Argentinian family, who have been travelling around the world in their 1928 car for 17 years, were at the Argentine embassy in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

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ROAD DEATHS: Two women aged in their 40s and 70s and a boy aged 7 were killed when a car in which they were travelling on the N17 collided with a truck at Lisduff, about a mile from Claremorris, Co Mayo. Photograph: Conor McKeown

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A fallen tree crashes atop a row of cars in Miami, Florida, in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Photograph: Michele Eve Sandberg/AFP/Getty Images

Hurricane Irma hits Florida

WALKING THE MILE: Garda Supt David Taylor, then garda commissioner Martin Callinan, deputy commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan following a Public Accounts Committee meeting at Leinster House in May 2013. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins

In Pictures: Nóirín O’Sullivan - a career in policing

Baby Sarah Hanna having a snooze on the front, brother Peter on the back while Selina Bailey participated in a cycle rally in Dublin for safer cycle lanes in particular on the city quays. Photograph Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times

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Male competitors overseen by an advertising display at the start on Dublin's Victoria Quay for the start of this years Liffey swim on Saturday. The 98th Dublin City Liffey Swim was organised by Leinster Open Sea and supported by Jones Engineering, Dublin City Council and Swim Ireland. Photograph Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times

In Pictures: The Liffey Swim

An image taken on 08/09/17 shows Hurricane Irma passing eastern Cuba, as it bears down on the US mainland with increased strength. Photograph: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association/PA Wire

In Pictures - Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean

Photographer William Hederman on the Rampestreken viewing platform over Andalsnes, Norway. The photographer travelled up Norway’s Atlantic coast to the spectacular Lofoten Islands in the Arctic Circle for the Irish Times Saturday magazine - see article. All Photographs: William Hederman

In Pictures: the spectacular Lofoten Islands in the Arctic Circle

HOUSING CRISIS: The scene outside Custom House in Dublin as Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy conducted a summit on housing and homelessness. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

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People standing in line to register in a shelter after they were evacuated from their coastal town after an earthquake struck off the southern coast, in Tapachula, Mexico, on Friday. Photograph; Jose Torres/Reuters

In Pictures: The earthquake in Mexico

MAKE TRACKS: Aela O'Sullivan (10) and her twin sisters Siún and Eavan (9) are the first to play the newly-installed piano at Pearse Station in Dublin. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

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Freddy the tallest dog with his owner Clare Stoneman. Photograph: Paul Michael Hughes/GWR/PA Wire

In Pictures: New Guinness World Records

SKYLARKIN': Sianna Bruce from Fidget Feet and Siomha Langan and Rachel Feeney at the programme launch for the 21st Baboró International Arts Festival for Children. Photograph: Andrew Downes, xposure

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STARBUCKS PROTEST: Theos Grainville, giving out free coffee to customers Sara Jakober and Michael Frefel, from Switzerland, at The Stage Door Cafe, East Essex Street, Dublin when independent coffee shops gave away free coffee in reaction to increased presence of Starbucks in the city. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

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Galway senior captain David Burke with Joe Canning as they hold aloft the Liam MacCarthy cup to supporters in Ballinasloe. Photograph: Ray Ryan

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DOWN TO THE WIRE: Galway fans celebrate winning the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final against Waterford at Croke Park, Dublin. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho

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The two teams line up for the national anthem before the game. Photo: Ryan Byrne /Inpho

All-Ireland SHC final: Galway 0-26 Waterford 2-17

Podge Cronin and Ruaidhi Gallagher from Skibbereen in Co Cork cheer on the dance-off at Electric Ireland's Throwback Stage. Photograph: Cody Glenn/Sportsfile

Electric Picnic Day 2

London Grammar on the main stage at Electric Picnic 2017 in Stradbally. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

In Pictures - Electric Picnic gets under way

IN THIS TOGETHER: A woman holds her dog as she arrives to high ground after evacuating her home due to floods caused by Tropical Storm Harvey along Tidwell Road in east Houston, Texas. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

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DIANA ANNIVERSARY: Royal fan John Loughrey among tributes marking the 20th-anniversary of Princess Diana's death, outside Kensington Palace, England. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA Wire

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As we head into autumn here's a look back at our summer of 2017 by Clodagh Kilcoyne of Reuters. A man snorkels in the sea during sunny weather in the County Galway suburb of Salthill, Ireland, May 30, 2017. All photographs by Clodagh Kilcoyne/ Reuters

A backwards glance at the Irish summer

Maya Laszczyk with her mother Magda, in junior infants during first day at school in Balbriggan Educate Together N.S. Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill / The Irish Times

Images of their first day at school

PRESIDENTIAL BRIEFING: US first lady Melania Trump listens during a firehouse briefing on Hurricane Harvey in Corpus Christi, Texas, August 29th, 2017. President Donald Trump has flown into storm-ravaged Texas to show solidarity. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

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Destyn Scales and her dog Dexter wade through flood waters in Beaumont Place, Houston. Photograph: Reuters

The dogs of hurricane Harvey

WASHED OUT: People evacuate a neighbourhood inundated by flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey, in Houston, Texas. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

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Willie Duggan portrait: May 2001. Photograph: Inpho/Patrick Bolger

Willie Duggan RIP: A rugby life in pictures

Fifteen Nursing Home residents of La Vita Bella in Dickinson South Houston, sit in waist deep water before they were air lifted by helicopter to safety. Photo:Timothy McIntosh

Huricane Harvey

JACK O’CONNOR CUP: Action from the Jack O'Connor Cup, the fourth race of the day, at the Glenbeigh Racing Festival on Rossbeigh Beach, Co Kerry, on Sunday. Photograph: Valerie O'Sullivan

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor pose for pictures after Mayweather's 10th round TKO victory in their super welterweight boxing match on August 26, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Mayweather V McGregor

Kerry's Kieran Donaghy is red carded by referee David Gough after striking Aidan O'Shea. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

Aidan O'Shea v Kieran Donaghy

FAMILY DAY: Gavin Chadwick (6), who previously had to be airlifted after being injured by a lawnmower, with pilot Capt Alan Bray, at a family day event at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, for patients who have been assisted in the five years since the Emergency Aeromedical Service was set up by the Irish Air Corps and the National Ambulance Service. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

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A tractor that fell into a river after a road collapsed in Iskaheen, Co Donegal. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Flooding from Derry to Donegal

ON BOARD: Stand-up paddle-boarders go down the river Liffey in Dublin. Photograph: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

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NORTHWEST STORMS: A man looks at a tractor which fell into a river after a road collapsed in Iskaheen, Co Donegal, following heavy rain in the area. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

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The new Rose of Tralee Jennifer Byrne from Offaly celebrates at the Midnight Madness party in Tralee. Photo Domnick Walsh Eye Focus

Gallery: Rose of Tralee 2017

ROSE OF TRALEE: A delighted Jennifer Byrne is crowned as the 2017 Rose of Tralee onstage in the Rose of Tralee International Festival Dome. Photograph: Domnick Walsh/Eye Focus Ltd

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epaselect epa06155335 The partial solar eclipse in Valle de Santa Ines, Betancuria, Fuerteventura, Spain, 21 August 2017. EPA/Carlos De Saa

Solar Eclipse 2017

TAKE THE WHEELS: Sr Mary Colomban, Frances Neary and Fergus Cooney ride on a trishaw donated to Sybil Hill Nursing Home by Canada Life, in Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

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TAKE PRIDE: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and Mr Varadkar's partner Matt Barrett take part in Montreal's Pride Parade. Photograph: Adam Scotti/Government press office/EPA

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PAYING RESPECTS: People arrive at the Mansion House in Dublin to sign the book of condolence for the vistims of the terrorist attacks in Spain. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

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BARCELONA ATTACK: Police officers attend injured people after a van crashed into pedestrians, killing several, on Las Ramblas, downtown Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: David Armengou/EPA

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Police officers and emergency service workers set up a security perimeter near the site where a van crashes into pedestrians in Las Ramblas, downtown Barcelona . Photogrph: Andreu Dalmau /EPA

Barcelona terrorist attack

JUMP FOR JOY: Megan McCluskey and classmates Sarah Duffy and Ella Glynn celebrate their Leaving Cert results, at Maryfield College, Whitehall, Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

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IN BLOOM: Presenter Dáithí Ó Sé with contestants in the Rose of Tralee during a photo call at Malahide Castle. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / THE IRISH TIMES

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FLYING FEET: Luka Byrne from Donegal dancing with his brothers Dempsey and Finn on O'Connell square at the Fleadh in Ennis on Monday. Photograph: Eamon Ward

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People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, on., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Photo: Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP

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Ireland's Paula Fitzpatrick celebrates scoring her second try. Photo: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

Women's RWC - Ireland v Japan

General View from the Tullamore Show. Photograph Nick Bradshaw

The Tullamore Show 2017

12/08/2017 - NEWS - Image from Dublin Comic Con 2017 held at the Convention Centre, Dublin. Jamie Kenny from Drogheda as Spideman at the conference. Photograph Nick Bradshaw

Dublin Comic Con 2017

BERLIN MEMORIAL: German chancellor Angela Merkel visits the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial at the site of a former Stasi prison, in Berlin. Photograph: Wolfgang Kumm/Pool/Reuters

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DUBLIN HORSE SHOW: Judging takes place in the Ridden Connemara Ponies section at the Dublin Horse Show at the RDS. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

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Claire Corkery (Cork), James O'Reilly, Melissa Buttimer, Blayne Sheehan (Allihies), Mary Ellen Buttimer and Siobhan Hooley entering the best dressed competition during Ladies Day at the Dublin Horse Show at the RDS. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Ladies Day at the Dublin Horse Show

2017 Women's Rugby World Cup Pool C, UCD Bowl. Ireland's Sophie Spence scores their third try. Photo: INPHO/Dan Sheridan

2017 Womens World Cup Rugby Kicks Off

CULTURE NIGHT: Laura Sarah Dowdall, Blackrock, and Dagmara Jerzak, Portobello, (right) members of Dance Ireland, at the Christ Church launch of Culture Night 2017 which takes place on Friday, September 22nd next. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

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HORSIN' AROUND: Lorenzo, 'The Flying Frenchman', who will be performing twice daily at this year's Dublin Horse Show at the RDS, on Sandymount Strand, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

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The Ireland squad at the Women's Rugby World Cup Welcoming Ceremony in the Mansion House, Dublin. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

Ireland squad for Women's Rugby World Cup

SHOW OF SUPPORT: Mayo fans celebrate their team's win over Roscommon in the All-Ireland senior football championship quarter-final replay at Croke Park. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

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Mayo's Andy Moran scores his side's second goal. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

All-Ireland SFC quarter-final replay: Roscommon v Mayo

FULL STEAM AHEAD: A scene from the 53rd annual Stradbally Steam Rally, in Co Laois.

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A scarab beetle tattoo on Gregory Tardieu, from Grenoble, France. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

The Dublin International Tattoo Convention

JUMP FOR JOY: Andrew Phelan celebrates Swamp Fox finishing second in the Guinness Galway Hurdle at the Galway Races. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons / THE IRISH TIMES

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Aoife McCana (left) from Spiddal, Co Galway who was named as the G Hotel Best Dressed Lady at the Galway Races and Oniesa Owens from Cavan who won the prize for Best Hat designed by Cavan milliner Davina Lynch. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/THE IRISH TIMES

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Photographer Gregory Dunn's photo-book is an interesting, often abstract look at Dublin at the end of the boom and during the recent recession - All Hallows Eve - "Halloween 2014 at O'Devaney Gardens, during a stand-off between locals and An Garda Síochána. The Guardians of the Peace were no match for the zeal of the local citizens as their traditional bonfire went up in flames seconds before the authorities were able to dismantle it."

Here and then - Dublin during the recent recession

Alan Jordan (8) celebrates as his hero, jockey Davy Russell, wins the Galway Plate on Balko Des Flos. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

Images of the Day - A Galway Races special

AT THE RACES: Racegoers attend day two of the 2017 Galway Races, at Ballybrit. Photograph: INPHO/James Crombie

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NAPOLEON FISH: A humphead wrasse, transported from Japan's southern island of Okinawa, in a tank for the Sony Aquarium 2017 exhibition in Tokyo. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images

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Riders to the sea- scene from the Omey Races in Claddaghduff, Connemara, on Sunday. Photographs: Joe O'Shaughnessy

Omey Races - in pictures

Maggie & John O'Brien from Gorey, Wexford at the Elvis Roots Festival which took place in Hacketstown, Co. Carlow over the weekend. This is the fourth festival celebrating Elvis since historian Michael Purcell discovered Elvis Presley's ancestor, William Presley, left the town in 1775. Photographs by Nick Bradshaw

In pictures - Hacketstown celebrates its Elvis roots

JIGS AND REELS: David Power on the uilleann pipes, with dancers Charlotte and Emily Dunne on the Greenway at the Ballyvoyle Tunnel ahead of the Dungarvan Summer Music Festival. Photograph: Patrick Browne

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A pilgrim ascends Croagh Patrick holy mountain during an annual Catholic pilgrimage. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

Croagh Patrick pilgrimage: In pictures

TAKE ON BOARD: Wakeboard champion Peter Stewart is towed along the River Liffer by The Panther, the world’s fastest water car. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/INPHO

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The FINA World Championships in Budapest have inspired photographers to create some remarkable, often abstract images, here are some of the best - - US Katie Ledecky competing in a heat of the women's 800m freestyle. Photograph: Francois-Xavier Marit / AFP

A bigger splash - remarkable images from FINA World Championships

GOING SWIMMINGLY: Japan's Reona Aoki competes in a 200m breaststroke heat during the 2017 FINA World Championships, in Budapest, Hungary. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

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Irish Water says supply is returning to the Louth/Meath area with full service expected by the weekend. Here's a look-back at the saga experienced by some 70,000 homes and businesses. Residents at Termon Abbey in Drogheda queue for water. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / The Irish Times

In Pictures: Days without water

BELIEVE YOUR EYES: European Masters Wakeboarding Champion Peter Stewart drives the Panther, the world's fastest water car, up the river Liffey in Dublin. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

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ANYTHNG YOU CAN DO... A swimmer's legs mirror Poolbeg's chimneys at the men's bathing shelter in Bull Island. Photograph: Fran Veale

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WATER QUEUE: Residents at Termon Abbey in Drogheda, Co Louth queue for water supplied by Drogheda Council following a burst mains pipe. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

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