Selected by deputy picture editor Brenda Fitzsimons
'A WHISTLE IN THE DARK': Playright Tom Murphy died aged 83 on Tuesday. File photograph: Bryan O'Brien
MARK OF RESPECT: Palestine ambassador to Ireland Ahmad Abdelrazek at the opening of a book of condolence at the Mansion House in Dublin for the Palestinian victims of the Israeli shootings during protests on Monday. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
GAZA STRIP: A Palestinian protester fires stones during clashes near the border with Israel in the east of Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian medical sources, two Palestinian protesters were shot dead by the Israeli army on Tuesday in Gaza. Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA
PHOTOGRAPH: Ed Sheeran performs in the Phoenix Park. Photograph Nick Bradshaw
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Vicky Phelan arriving at the Dáil prior to her appearance before the Public Accounts Committee. The Lmerick woman said she was “not interested in revenge” but wanted accountability from the health service over the CervicalCheck scandal. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
SOLUS BRIGHTEST: Robyn Cullen (6) from Coolock and Jamie Green (4) from Ashbourne at the launch of the search for Solus Brightest at Bloom. The final will be held at Bloom by Bord Bia on Monday June 4th. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Dublin
KENYAN FLOOD: Relatives arrange the coffins of their kin inside a mass grave during the burial of people killed when a dam burst its walls, overrunning nearby homes, in Solai town near Nakuru, Kenya. Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
RAMADAN: Indonesian Muslims praying at the Istiqlal mosque during the first night of the fasting month of Ramadan, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Muslims around the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan by praying during the night time and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. Photograph: Bagus Indahono/EPA
REMBRANDT: Employees clean up the glass in front of the painting 'Portrait of a Young Gentleman' in Amsterdam's Hermitage Museum, The Netherlands. It is the first work by Rembrandt to be discovered in 44 years. Photograph: Koen van Weel/EPA
INCREDIBLE FEAT: Chinese double amputee climber Xia Boyu arrives to the Ciwec hospital after returning from Everest base camp in Kathmadu, Nepal. He is the first double amputee to reach the summit from Nepal side. Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA
DISHING THE DIRT: Cambridge Analytica former employee and whistleblower Christopher Wylie arrives to testify on the Facebook data privacy scandal before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
CINEMAGIC: Micheal Mongon (10), Reece Doona (9) and Darragh Cullen (9) at a special effects make-up workshop with Robert King at Francis Street CBS in Dublin as part of Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
IN BLOOM: Paul Gore (11), Anthony McCabe (6), Megan Infangir (9), Katie Cummins (7), Eoin Marks (8), and Lee Weldon (9) who attend Phoenix Park Specialist School preparing for Ireland's first nurture garden, which is being designed for Bloom 2018. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
CHOIR FOR HIRE: Carmel Downes and Tom Dowling of the Misa (Mercer's Unit for Successful Ageing) Community Choir who were in fine voice at a concert at St James's Hospital. Photograph: Mark Stedman