BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD: Liadh McNamara (1), daughter of Dr Maria McNamara enjoying the limelight as Prof Emma Teeling, Prof Sarah McCormack, Dr Aoife Gowen. Prof Aoife McLysaght and Dr McNamara look on, during the launch of the Accenture Women On Walls campaign which features the first portraits to hang on the Royal Irish Academy walls. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
NEVER FORGOTTEN: Roses, thrown by families and relatives of people who are missing, in the pond at Farmleigh during the fourth annual Missing Persons Day ceremony. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
MISSING PERSONS DAY: Families and relatives of people who are missing as birds are released and roses thrown into the pond at Farmleigh during the fourth annual Missing Persons Day ceremony. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
LUAS CRASH: Firefighters and engineers at the scene of a crash between a Luas and a car, in which the car became wedged between a support stanchion and and the tram, near Tallaght Hospital. One woman was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin
O'DEVANEY GARDENS: Local resident Carol Wolfe greeting Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe and Minister for Housing Simon Coveney as they announced approval of the regeneration scheme for O'Devaney Gardens, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
ORKAMBI: Protest in support of people with cystic fibrosis and the campaign for Orkambi drug therapy approval in Ireland at Leinster House. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
LOST GIRL: Actor Robyn Dempsey (9) represented the 10 million refugee children who have been forced from their homes as a Plan International Ireland campaign aimed to see if shoppers would stop when they saw a child lost on Grafton Street. Photograph: Jason Clarke
ALEPPO: Syrian residents fleeing the violence in the eastern rebel-held parts of Aleppo evacuate from their neighbourhoods through the Bab al-Hadid district after it was seized by government forces. Photograph: George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images
SOUTH AFRICA: A man walks past a new piece of graffiti art painted on a wall in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. The art work, which depicts an underwater world with fish and a turtle, is in the Maboneng area of the biggest city in the country. Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA
INDONESIA QUAKE: The hand of an earthquake survivor is seen under rubble as residents try to rescue him in Pidie Jaya, Aceh province, Indonesia. Dozens of people died as a result of the quake. Photograph: Aqien Abdullah/AFP/Getty Images
INDONESIA: Indonesian villagers collect belongings from a collapsed building after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Pidie Jaya, Aceh, Indonesia. Photograph: Hotli/Simanjuntak/EPA
READY TO GO: Gray Cranes flocking at the Agamon Hula Lake in the Hula valley in northern Israel. More than €500m birds of some 400 different species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and go back to Europe during the year. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
SNOW MAIDEN: A visitor and an employee dressed as Snegurochka (Snow Maiden), the granddaughter of Ded Moroz (Russian equivalent of Santa Claus), pose for a picture inside an upside down house, constructed as an attraction for tourists at the Royev Ruchey Park of Flora and Fauna in the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
