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Images of the Day
Selected by picture editor Frank Miller
FUTURE SHOCK: Margot Moore, a first-year student from Loreto Foxrock, has a hair-raising experience, at the launch of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, at the RDS. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
YOUNG SCIENTIST EXHIBITION: Dr Tony Scott, co-founder, with Aimee O'Neill and Margot Moore, first-year students from Loreto Foxrock, at the launch of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, at the RDS. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
LARRY THE LOCUST: Molly Measey, Pobalscoil Iosolde, Palmerstown, Co Dublin, with "Larry the Locust", from her project on environmental insecticide for use in developing countries, at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, at the RDS. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
UNDER PRESSURE: First Minister of Northern Ireland and DUP leader Arlene Foster arrives at DUP headquarters in east Belfast, the day after Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy first minister over the 'cash for ash' scandal. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press
'CASH FOR ASH': Party leader Gerry Adams at Sinn Féin headquarters on Belfast's Falls Road. Arlene Foster has stated that she is open for discussions with Sinn Féin in the next few days. Photograph: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker
SOUTHERN REACTION: Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald on the plinth of Leinster House speaking to media following Martin McGuinness's resignation as deputy first minister. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
SOARES DEATH: President Michael D Higgins at the Portuguese embassy, where he signed the book of condolences for Portugal's former president and prime minister Mario Soares. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
IN FOCUS: Minister of State at the Department of Finance Eoghan Murphy at a press conference to publish a plan to improve motor insurance. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
SESSIONS PROTEST: Protesters dressed as Klansmen disrupt the start of a Senate judiciary committee confirmation hearing for US Attorney General-nominee Senator Jeff Sessions on Capitol Hill in Washington. The conservative senator faces concerns over how committed he would be to civil rights. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
DAKAR RALLY: Britain's Max Hunt rides a FR 450 Rally Husqvarna bike in the Classe 2.1: Super Production during stage seven of the 2017 Dakar Rally between La Paz and Uyuni in Bolivia. Photograph: Dan Istitene/Getty Images
TEHRAN IN MOURNING: Iranian women attend the funeral ceremony of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the capital Tehran. The heavyweight politician died on Sunday aged 82. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
FLATLEY FUNERAL: Michael Flatley carries the remains of his mother at St Moling's Church, Glynn, Co Carlow at her funeral. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin
THESSALONIKI: A woman with two dogs walks past the "Umbrellas", the sculpture by Giorgos Zogolopoulos during heavy snowfall at the seaside promenade of the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece. Photograph: Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters
BELGRADE: Migrants warm up around a fire at a makeshift shelter at an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade as temperatures dropped to -15 degrees overnight. Photograph: Andrej Isakovic/AFP/Getty Images
