TAKE A VIEW: People relax on their balconies at Dublin's Grand Canal amid restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times

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OFF THE RAILS: Workers investigate the aftermath of a since-removed truck colliding with a Luas tram at the junction of Queen Street and Benburb Street in Dublin city centre on Monday morning. The Luas driver sustained injuries described as non-life threatening. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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A ROOM WITH A VIEW: Tony McGrath (76) "cocooning" against coronavirus at his home in Drumcondra, Dublin. Cocooning, which involves vulnerable persons minimising all interaction with other people, is now required for everyone in the State over the age of 70. Photograph: Fran Veale

Coronavirus 'cocooning' is the new normal

SPRING BEETLE: A vintage Volkswagen Beetle on the N11 near Stillorgan, Co Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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SPECIAL DELIVERY: An ice cream van being used to make essential deliveries to local people in need in the lower Oldpark and Shankill Road area of Belfast on Thursday. Photograph: Justin Kernoghan

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DISTANCING DOG: People Before Profit TDs Brid Smith, Richard Boyd Barrett and Gino Kenny were joined by Smith's dog, Barney, outside the Dail this afternoon. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

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Abdelkader Yayaoui, who is homeless and would rather live in his car than go into a hostel for fear of catching the Coronavirus Covid-19. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

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SOCIAL HURLING: Sean and Dylan Duggan of Naomh Barróg GAA Club work on their hurling skills while maintaining social distancing on Balbriggan beach in Co Dublin. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

Lovely hurling: We're keeping our distance

SO NEAR, SO FAR: Walkers exploit the quiet of the sandbar on Bull Island as they find themselves in splendid isolation, quite close to Dublin city centre, amid the coronavirus outbreak. Photograph: Alan Betson

So near, so far

FISHING AT A DISTANCE: Gerard McLoughlin from Kells, Co Meath, practices social distancing while fly-fishing in the Blackwater river on the outskirts of the village. Photograph: Alan Betson

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A masked woman arrives at Waterloo Station in London. Photograph: Neill Hall/EPA

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TAKE A DIP: Trainer Garvan Donnelly's horses, Misty Millie with Ben O'Brien and Queen of Soul with Cody Keogh on board, take a walk in the water on the beach at Mornington, Co Meath. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho

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St Patrick's Day views from Dublin city: Sean Dowling (11) with his father Andrew Dowling, from Clondalkin. Photograph: Tom Honan

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Temple of Hercules is seen during Tourism Ireland's annual Global Greening initiative, to celebrate the island of Ireland and St Patrick, in Amman, Jordan.

Global Greening for St.Patrick's Day

Artist John Paul pictured painting on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan

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WESTERN LIGHTS: Savage Beauty, the largest ever outdoor light artwork, by Finnish light artist, Kari Kola, presented by Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture. This outdoor light artwork transformed a 5km stretch of the Connemara mountains overlooking Loch na Fuaiche in Galway. Photograph: Christopher Lund

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AT THE RACES: A view of racegoers at the 2020 Cheltenham Festival, Prestbury Park, England. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

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VIRAL GREETING: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and US president Donald Trump greeting each other with a 'namaste' gesture in the Oval Office at the White House during the Taoiseach's visit to the US. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

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ELECTRIC PICNIC: Members of Ballet Ireland, Nathan Cornwell, Niamh O'Flannagain, Amand Pulaj, Sayako Tomiyoshi, Dominic Harrison and Kesi Doriey, perform during the reveal of the line-up for Electric Picnic 2020. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill

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WELCOME HOME: Passengers wearing face masks arrive at Dublin Airport after disembarking flights. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

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GOLD DUST: Coloured powder is tossed over participants during Holi festival celebrations in Kolkata, India, on Monday. Holi is an ancient Indian festival also known as the Festival of Colour, held to mark the arrival of spring. Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

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Lewis Capaldi in concert at the 3Arena, Dublin on Sunday night. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

In pictures: Lewis Capaldi live in Dublin

THINKING AHEAD: A large stock of toilet paper in the window of a house on the Cabra Road in Dublin, as concerns gather over the Covid-19 virus in Ireland, also known as the coronavirus. Photograph: Alan Betson

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Women wearing pink protective masks pose in front of the Duomo di Milano to mark the International Women's Day in Milan. Photograph : Miguel Medina / AFP

In Pictures : International Women's Day

#100CONSENT: Noeline Blackwell, chief executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, at the launch of #100consent, a new collaboration between the centre and 20 of Ireland's leading users of social media platform TikTok to raise awareness around sexual consent. Photograph: Andres Poveda

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The Script on stage at the 3Arena on Thursday night for the first of three sold out concerts in Dublin as part of the band's Moons and Sunsets tour. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times

The Script live in Dublin: in pictures

Britain's Duchess and Duke of Cambridge visit a family-owned, traditional Irish pub in Galway. Photograph: Arthur Edwards/EPA

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit Galway

POODLE PERM: A poodle is prepared ahead of day one at Crufts in Birmingham, UK. The annual dog show has restrictions in place this year due to the coronavirus outbreak. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

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ROYAL VISIT: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the cliff walk during a visit to Howth Head in Co Dublin, as part of their three-day visit to the Republic. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

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TRAILBLAZING WOMEN: The portraits of nine academic leaders were unveiled at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland to celebrate their achievements at the institution. Pictured at the unveiling are (from left) photographer Amelia Stein, Professor Niamh Moran, Professor Zena Moore, Professor Anne Hickey, Professor Marie Guidon, Kate Kelly, Professor Hannah McGee, Professor Teresa Pawlikowska and Professor Tracy Robson. Photograph: Maxwells

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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, President Michael D Higgins, his wife Sabina Coyne and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, share a light moment as they look at an art installation in the grounds of Áras an Uachtaráin on the first day of a three-day visit to Ireland by the royal couple. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP via Getty Images

In pictures: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive in Ireland for three-day visit

RESCUE REMEDY: The Irish Coast Guard Helicopter, Rescue 116, pays a visit to Dunboyne Senior Primary School, at Dunboyne, Co Meath, with crowds from the school community attending the springtime spectacle. Photograph: Tom Honan

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SLEET OF FOOT: Donegal and Down players battle through a snowstorm during their U20 Ulster Championship semi-final at Loup, Co Derry. Photograph: Margaret McLaughlin

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Chief Justice Frank Clarke, Aislinn Carty and Eoghan Quinn of TCD Phil (team winners), Rachael Mullally of UCD Law (individual winner) and Irish Times editor Paul O'Neill at The Irish Times Debate 2020 final.

The Irish Times Debate 2020 final

REFUGEE CRISIS: A child cries as a dinghy with 54 Afghan refugees lands ashore the Greek island of Lesbos. Groups of refugees are heading towards the EU after Turkey said it would not abide by a deal to stop them reaching Europe. Photograph: Aris Messinis via Getty Images

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ALL CONSUMING: A view of an installation entitled Massive Clearance, by artist Sonia Haccius, which focuses on unchecked consumerism, in Dublin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

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'GHOST' SHIP: Cork County Council engineers during efforts to remove oil and other possible contaminants from the grounded cargo ship MV Alta off the coast of Ballycotton, Co Cork. Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

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VIRAL LOCKDOWN: A guest looks out from the balcony of a hotel that has been placed under quarantine due to coronavirus, in the town of Adeje, Tenerife, Spain. The hotel was isolated after one of its clients, an Italian tourist, tested positive for the virus. Photograph: EPA

Coronavirus impact widens in Europe

Statements including Women Raise The Uprising, We Are All Clitoridian Women, and Consent, adorned the hall for the Dior show at Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

In pictures: Dior makes striking female empowerment statement at Paris Fahion Week

FLOOD PRONE: A house for sale lies under theat of flooding in Athlone, situated on the River Shannon, on Monday. The town has seen much flooding in the past. Caretaker Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and former TD Kevin "Boxer" Moran, a representative of the area, were due to visit flood defence preparations. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

That sinking feeling...of floods all over again

Flooding in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co, Leitrim. Photograph: Brian Farrell/The Irish Times

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VOTE EARLY: A girl holds her mother's hand as they wait in line at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Shahr-e-Ray, Tehran province, Iran. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA

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CHINA: Border authorities travel through the snow to inspect a mountainous border area and to provide information of Covid-19 (the coronavirus originated in China) to residents in a remote area of Altay, Xinjiang province, China. Photograph: A Ran/EPA

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ASHES TO ASHES: A Naga Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, smeared with ashes walks inside an ashram at Pashupatinath Temple ahead of the Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

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Stable visit to Gordon Elliott's yard ahead of the Cheltenham Festival. Photograph: Brian Keane/Inpho

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BE KIND: One Kind Word, a slogan based artwork on Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, which was commissioned by 3Ts, a charity working to help prevent deaths by suicide through research, intervention and support. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

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STORMY WATERS: Swimmers take to the water in Salthill, Galway, during Storm Dennis. Photograph: Hany Marzouk

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Portrait of a princess, possibly a daughter of Prince Nilarat

Siam through the lens of John Thomson, 1865-66

SAY CHEESE: Chat-up lines written on Easi Singles are seen as part of a Valentine's Day exhibition on display in Liberty Hall, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

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Models on the catwalk during the Irish designer's Richard Malone Autumn/Winter show at London Fashion Week on Friday, February 14th at the BFC Show Space show in London. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

London Fashion Week: Richard Malone Autumn/Winter collection in pictures

CATCH A WAVE: Andy Thompson from Ashford surfing at Magheramore Strand, Co Wicklow. Photograph: Maura Hickey

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Brendan Howlin TD amongst party colleagues as he announced that he will not contest an upcoming labour leadership competition. Photograph Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times

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SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: Sharni Edwards (27) and Robyn Peoples (26), a Belfast couple who are the first known same-sex pair to marry in Northern Ireland, kiss after their nuptials, in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Yes Equality in Northern Ireland

DRESSED FOR IT: Sheep feed from a trough amid heavy snowfall in Roundwood, Co Wicklow. Photograph: Garry O'Neill

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Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald at the Dublin election count centre at the RDS. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times

Election 2020: The count in pictures

Ireland's Kathryn Dane reacts as Robyn Wilkins of Wales kicks the ball clear at the Women's Six Nations Championship Round 2, Energia Park, Donnybrook, Co Dublin. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/INPHO

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Blue the greyhound poses for the camera at a Dublin polling station. His first past the post days are long behind him. Photograph: David Cochrane

Dogs of Election 2020

Veil Away: The effect of a gust of wind on Bride to be Aisling Barron who was en-route to getting married at the Church of St Vincent de Paul on Griffith Avenue; prior to the ceremony both Aisling and her father Ken voted at the Polling station in St Vincent de Paul Girl's school. Photograph Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

In pictures: Ireland goes to the polls

Ireland's Jordan Larmour scores the first try of the game. Photo: Ryan Byrne/Inpho

In Pictures: Ireland 24 Wales 14

MASK'S BEST FRIEND: A woman and her dog both wearing protective masks in Beijing, China. The number of cases of a deadly new coronavirus rose to more than 31,000 in mainland China, days after the World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a global public health emergency. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

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HOUSING CRISIS: Luke McDermott (5) takes part in a protest calling for more housebuilding, outside Fingal County Council offices in Dublin. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times

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Kirk Douglas with copies of his autobiography The Ragman's Son at Harrods Department Store in London in September 2008. Photograph: PA

Kirk Douglas: A life in pictures

CRASH: Police officers inspect the Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737-86J plane, that overran the runway during landing and crashed at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport on Turkey on Wednesday. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters

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DISINFECTION: Volunteers in protective suits disinfect a railway station as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Changsha, Hunan province, China on Tuesday. Photograph: cnsphoto via Reuters

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SPRING IS HERE: Sarah Holland and her father Declan with quintuplet lambs (four ewes and a ram) born on their farm in Blarney, Co Cork. Described as a one in a million occurrence, the first-time mother gave birth unaided on Sunday morning. Photograph: Daragh McSweeney/Provision

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LISTENING CAREFULLY: Alice Mannion (5), from Lucan, under the tutelage of Feargal Donaghy, a 4th-year final med student, at the Teddy Bear Hospital event organised by the RCSI Paediatric Society, designed to put children at ease around medical matters. This year's chosen benefitting charity is St Michael's House. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

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Scotland's Stuart Hogg drops the ball while trying to score a try. Photo: Donall Farmer/PA Wire

In Pictures: Ireland 19 Scotland 12

RIVER DANCE: Members of the cast of the Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show dance along the Liffey close to Dublin's 3Arena, where the show will run. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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Children wear plastic bottles as makeshift homemade protection and protective masks while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport, China. The number of cases of a new coronavirus rose to over 7,000 in mainland China on Thursday as the country continued to lock down the city of Wuhan in an effort to contain its spread. Photograph: by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

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BUILD BRIDGES: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Rose Katherine Kennedy Townsend at the opening of the State's longest bridge, in New Ross, Co Wexford. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

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Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin at the Irish Farm Centre in Bluebell, Co Dublin. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times

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MALLON: From left to right; Mark Durkan, Colin McGrath, Collum Eastwood and Alex Attwood carry the coffin of Seamus Mallon, the former deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, at his funeral at Saint James of Jerusalem Church in Mullaghbrack, Co Armagh. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

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Ceannt's pipes: Master uilleann piper Mark Redmond playing Proclamation signatory Eamon Ceannt's Uilleann Pipes for the first time in Kilmainham Gaol since he was executed there in May 1916 as part of Tradfest 2020. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

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CHILDCARE LABOUR: Cllr Juliet O'Connell, Dáil candidate for Dún Laoghaire, Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Andrew Montague at the launch of the Labour Party's proposals for a new public childcare option. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

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Seamus Mallon being shown the site of the bomb explosion in Omagh, along with then British deputy prime minister John Prescott. Photograph Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times

Seamus Mallon, 1936-2020: A life in pictures

SWIM: A pair of bathers steps up out of the water as the fog clears over Dublin Bay in Clontarf. Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times

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SHAKE NEWS: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is greeted by Peter Casey after both handed in their nomination papers for the election, in Finglas, Dublin. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

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LEADING THE PARTY: Bonbha Nic Coitir (2) entertains Sinn Féin members including Gerry Adams TD (centre) during a musical interlude at the party's launch of general election candidates in Dublin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Belle of the ball

20 January 2020; Pobailscoil Inbhear Sceine players, including Clionadh Daly and Amy Harrington celebrate following the Basketball Ireland U16 A Girls Schools Cup Final between Pobailscoil Inbhear Sceine and Our Lady of Mercy, Waterford at the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght, Dublin. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile *** NO REPRODUCTION FEE ***

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LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY: Fergal Carroll and his son Kyle out walking along the Great South Wall in Dublin. Photograph: Damien Eagers/The Irish Times

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From left, Conor Mullin (12), Robert Mullin (7) and John Mullin (13) playing in Temple Bar while artists from Tradfest, the traditional music festival, perform an impromptu session. Tradfest runs from Januar 22nd-26th. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

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KITE SPOT: Workers remove kites tangled up in electric power cables after the end of the kite-flying season, in Ahmedabad, India. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

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CANAL: Members of the gardaí at the scene where a homeless man was involved in an incident along the Grand Canal in Dublin city centre. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

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ELECTION TRIGGERED: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (right) attends Áras an Uachtaráin in the Phoenix Park in Dublin to seek the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil by President Michael D Higgins, ahead of a general election scheduled for February 8th. Photograrph: Tom Honan

Dissolution of the Dáil

BRENDAN'S RAGE: Waves carry over Clontarf's sea wall and rush through a nearby rain shelter as Storm Brendan hits the coast road at Clontarf, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Storm Brendan blows over but risks remain

PHILPPINES VOLCANO: A resident tries to clean his car which is covered in ash after Taal Volcano erupted in Talisay, Batangas province, Philippines. Local authorities evacuated residents nearby on Sunday. Photograph: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

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YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Alan O'Sullivan (left) and Cormac Harris and from Colaiste Choilm, Cork, whose BT Young Scientist and Technology project, 'A statistical investigation into the prevalence of gender stereo-typing in 5-7 year olds and the development of an initiative to combat gender bias' won this year's title BT Young Scientists of the Year. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times

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CATHOLIC PROCESSION: A Catholic devotee is carried away after fainting while taking part in the annual procession of the Black Nazarene in Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

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CHINESE NEW YEAR: Qing Ying Chen (9) from Wicklow, Zhi Yuan Lin (8) from Kildare and Chu Fei Lin (7) from Dublin at the announcement of the programme for Dublin Chinese New Year Festivities 2020 which runs from January 24th to February 10th celebrating the year of the Rat. Photograph: Alan Betson

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FUNERAL AFTERMATH: An anxious woman shows a medic a picture of her missing brother as people queue to check whether family members are accounted for, outside the information office of a hospital in the Iranian city of Kerman, following a stampede at the funeral of Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Suleimani on Tuesday. The crush killed scores of people. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty

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DJ Larry Gogan, who's death was announced on Tuesday, January 7th, 2020, in the RTÉ 2FM studio in 2010. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

Larry Gogan, 1938-2020: A life in pictures

SULEIMANI FUNERAL: Former Iranian Revolutionary Guards chief Mohamad Ali Jafari prays over the coffin of slain Revolutionary Guards lieutenant-general and Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani at his funeral in Tehran, Iran, on Monday. Photograph: Iran Supreme Leader Office handout/EPA

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People walk on the floating bridge at the Zaryadye park next to the Spasskaya tower of the Moscow Kremlin and the St Basil Cathedral. Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

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TRADFEST: Louise Mulcahy, Aoife Scott and Michelle Mulcahy, some of the artists involved in TradFest2020, launching the programme for the festival at Kilmainham Gaol, which takes place from January 22nd-26th. Photograph: Alan Betson

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Marian Finucane in the RTÉ radio studios in January 1980. Photograph: Pat Langan/The Irish Times

Marian Finucane 1950 - 2020: A life in pictures

AUSTRALIA FIRES: Harvey Keaton is presented with his firefighter father's posthumous honour for bravery after his death at the Green Wattle Creek fireground, Australia. Photograph: NSW RFS/PA Wire

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