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BOLT OUT: Usain Bolt competes in the mixed 4x100m relay during the 2017 Nitro Athletics series at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

SET THE STAGE: Charlie Murphy, Hugh O'Conor, Enda Walsh, Oona Doherty and Emma Martin on the Abbey Stage ahead of the opening of their play Arlington. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

PRESIDENTIAL VIEW: President Michael D Higgins visits UTEC University in Lima during his official visit to Peru. Photograph: Maxwell's

POETRY IN MOTION: Ross Goodwin with his installation that translates photographs into poems, at the Humans Need Not Apply exhibition in Dublin. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

AR MUIN NA MUICE: 'Guinea pigs' help launch the Irish language festival Seachtain na Gaeilge at Facebook's Dublin HQ. Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography

PISTE OFF: Germany's Andreas Sander takes part in a training session at the 2017 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in St Moritz, Switzerland. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

WINTER OLYMPICS: Dancers prior to a performance marking the one-year countdown to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, in Gangneung, South Korea. Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images

AIR FORCE: A hot air balloon shaped like 'Star Wars' character Yoda takes flight during the International Hot Air Balloon Festival in the Philippines. Photograph: Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images

HEALING CEREMONY: A Nepalese shaman treats a baby during a healing ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA

SING PRAISES: British singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, shakes hands with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara. Photograph: Yasin Bulbul/AFP/Getty Images

BALANCE OF POWER: Workers work on high voltage power lines in Tongling, Anhui province, China. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters

LUNAR NEW YEAR: A member of the Long Horn Miao ethnic minority group cooks after a Lunar New Year festival in Guizhou province, China. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

ISRAELI PROTEST: Israeli police use a water cannon to disperse ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators during a protest against army recruitment in Jerusalem. Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

US POLITICS: US president Donald Trump watches as Jeff Sessions is sworn in as the new US attorney-general, in the White House in Washington, DC. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

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EU MEMBERSHIP: Minister for Culture Catherine Martin, MEP Barry Andrews, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Minister of State for European Affairs Thomas Byrne and director of the National Archives Orlaith McBride during a visit to the National Archives to mark 50 years since Ireland signed the Treaty of Accession under which it joined the European Union. The Taoiseach and Ministers inspect the original Treaty, signed by then taoiseach Jack Lynch, and related documents. Photograph: Laura Hutton

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OH DEER: The breath of a fallow buck is seen on a winter morning in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

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EPIPHANY: A Russian Orthodox believer dips in the icy water during a traditional Epiphany celebration in St Petersburg, Russia on Wednesday. Thousands of Russian Orthodox Church followers plunged into icy rivers and ponds across the country to mark Epiphany, cleansing themselves with water deemed holy for the day. The temperature in St Petersburg was -1 degree. Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP

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Yvette Monahan, The Thousand-Year-Old Boy from the series, The Thousand-Year-Old Boy, 2015

National Photography Collection

BE BRAVE: Pupils of Ashling Murphy's, from first class at Durrow National School, form a guard of honour for the murdered teacher at her funeral at Saint Brigid's Church, Mountbolus, Co Offaly. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Sad farewell for Ashling Murphy

TOOLED UP: Cast members in the Royal Irish Academy of Music's production of Henry Purcell's King Arthur showing in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. This is a co-production with Design for Stage and Screen at IADT, Dún Laoghaire. The show runs until January 22nd next, see www.riam.ie. Photograph: Mark Stedman

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