Harp-maker Kevin Harrington handing over a new harp to Muireann Ni Mhuirthile (10), on National Harp Day, at the Featherbeds in the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. Photograph Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
Nancy Stewart at the door of her Clonard, Co Meath, home bedecked with flowers and balloons to celebrate her 107th birthday. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/The Irish Times
People on Quay Street in Galway, as seen through a clear PVC window on an outside Gazebo. Photograph: Andy Newman
Pro-democracy protesters push back at riot police as they fire water cannons during an anti-government rally in Bangkok. Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images
A man walks along a pathway on the shores of Strangford Lough, Co. Down. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Andrew Ilesley demonstrates how to use a self-test kit at the new walk-through Covid testing centre in Dundee, Scotland. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA Wire
Show me the Monet by British street artist Banksy, on view as part of the contemporary art auction, at Sotheby's in London. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
A pug looks on as gardaí conduct a Covid-19 checkpoint on the N7 at Blackchurch. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin
A dog walker passes a seal on Sandymount Strand in Dublin. Photograph: Marc O'Sullivan
Autumnal trees in the early morning light at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on the Marina in Cork. Photograph: David Creedon/Anzenberger
Traffic moves along a street as residents vote for a new town name in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. The town used geography, history and a touch of poetry to offer new name options to its residents as they vote to abandon a name associated with cancer in English. Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg
