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Images of the Day
Selected by deputy picture editor Brenda Fitzsimons
SPRING IN THEIR STEP: Garments from the Louise Kennedy Spring Summer 2018 collection. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
DELHI ELEPHANT: A "mahout" bathes his elephant in the polluted water of the river Yamuna in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
PATTISON SENDOFF: The funeral of former Ceann Comhairle Seamus Pattison proceeds at St Patricks Church in Kilkenny. Photograph: Dylan Vaughan
#METOOFGM: Anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaigner Ifrah Ahmed, a Somali-born, Dublin-based activist, promoting #MeTooFGM, to be launched at the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin's Smithfield. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
SUFRAGETTE CITY: Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington, granddaughter of late, leading Irish suffragette Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, re-enacts smashing windows at Dublin Castle over 100 years ago, being arrested by a member of the RIC, played by Rob McCarthy. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
IT'S NO JOKE: European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker jokes with the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt ahead of a debate on the Future of Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters
OSCAR NOMINEES: Nominees for the 90th Oscars pose during the Oscars Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California, US. The 90th Academy Awards will take place on March 3rd. on ABC. Todd Wawrychuk/AMPAS/EPA
HEAVY WEATHER: The snow-covered Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Basilique du Sacre-Cur) at Montmartre hill in Paris. The Meteo France weather service put the greater Paris region on alert for snow and black ice on roads. Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images
SNOWY SPELL: Tents on the dock of the Saint-Martin canal, where migrants have been staying, during a snowy spell in Paris. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images
DIPLOMATIC FELINE: Julian Assange's cat sits behind a window at Ecuador's embassy in London, Britain. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
OLYMPIC WARMUP: A sculpture featuring Nordic sports - cross-country, biathlon and ski jumping (left-right) - is silhouetted ahead of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
DUSTY LABOUR: Brick factory workers stack bricks on a cart before taking them to a warehouse in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photograph: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
SLED DOG RALLY: Siberian Husky dogs of the Royev Ruchey Park team pull a rig during a practice session for the Karadag Sled Dog Rally on the frozen Mana River, with the air temperature at about minus 21 degrees Celsius, in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
