FACE-OFF CONTINUES: Police clash with protesters in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Clashes reached their most intense point in four months of protest, with one demonstrator shot in the chest with live ammunition, on the day that Beijing celebrated 70 years of Communist Party rule. Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/New York Times
LIVE FIRE: Police clash with protesters in Hong Kong. A police officer shot a teenage demonstrator - the first time in months of unrest in the Asian financial hub that a live round has been fired at a protester. Photograph: Lam Yik Fei/New York Times
POMP AND SPLENDOUR: Performers take part in a mass parade on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Photograph: Xinhua News Agency handout/EPA
MILITARY MIGHT: Chinese army officers watch during a military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, at Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty
PARTY GAMES: Participants march during the celebration to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China, in Beijing. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP Photo
GANDHI DEVOTEES: Teenagers dressed as the "father of the Indian nation", Mahatma Gandhi, attend a peace rally (Shanti March) on the eve of the 150th anniversary of his birth, in Bhopal, India. Photograph: Sanjeev Gupta/EPA
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Artists perform during a media preview of Cirque du Soleil production Kurios - Cabinet of Curiosities, at the Entertainment Quarter in Sydney, Australia. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/EPA
I'VE HAD ENOUGH: A Luas passenger throws her eyes up to heaven in Dublin city centre as an onslaught of wind and rain pummelled the capital on Tuesday. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
WINDY CITY: This tree on Military Road in Kilmainham, Dublin, cracked and hit the ground with an almighty crash during high winds on Tuesday. Photograph: Tom Honan
KEEPING HIS DISTANCE: A man takes pictures as water forces its way over the sea wall at Howth Harbour, Co Dublin, amid relentless grey skies on Tuesday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
WILD AT HEART: Brothers Luka (5, left) and Max Kelly (7), from Clontarf, jump in a puddle on the Bull Wall, Clontarf, Dublin, amid a day of bad weather. Photograph: Tom Honan
IT'S A BLAST: Lucas Enright (11), a pupil from Gaelscoil Eiscir Riada, Lucan, and Cork GAA legend Rena Buckley, a holder of 18 All-Ireland medals, at the launch of primary school science initiative, ESB Science Blast. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
A BIT OF BANTER: From left are former minister for justice Nora Owen, Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell, and Redmond O'Hanlon, who lives with Friedrich's Ataxia, at the Home and Community Care Ireland Conference on Tuesday, the International Day of Older Persons. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
WALKING BY: A rough sleeper in Dublin after a very wet night on the streets of the capital. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
GALWAY CELLO: Naomi Berrill, musical artist, at St Nicholas Collegiate Church, Galway, launching Music for Galway's 39th season. Bill Whelan has composed a new work for the Galway Cello (pictured), which features in Cellissimo, a cello festival being held in 2020. The instrument was crafted by luthier Kuros Torkzadeh from East Galway trees. Photograph: Andrew Downes/xposure.ie
HATS OFF: Mary Byrne, from Dublin, with Lord Mayor Paul McAuliffe and members of Friends of the Elderly Ireland, celebrating UN International Day of the Older Person at the GPO, O'Connell Street, Dublin. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
ART OF CONVERSATION: Veteran broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh with Kate Kelly of Drogheda (left) and Abbie Sheridan of Monaghan, at the launch at DCU of Operation Conversation, in partnership with Third Age, marking the United Nations Day of Older Persons. Photograph: Julien Behal Photography
SHIP SHAPE: Harland and Wolff workers Barry Reid (left) and Joe Passmore (centre) with GMB union representative Denise Walker (second left), and Unite union representative Susan Fitzgerald, celebrating following the announcement that the Belfast shipyard has been saved after it was bought by energy infrastructure company InfraStrata. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
