Members from the performing arts sector of Ireland held a silent, socially distant protest outside Leinster House over the continued closure of their businesses and livelihoods. Pictured is Niamh O'Flannagain, former student and guest teacher at the Goode School of Dance. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
At the opening of the exhibition Worlds Without End, were Michael Dempsey, Head of Exhibitions at the Hugh Lane (co-curator of Worlds Without End) and Victoria Evans, Exhibitions Curator at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
A baby European bison was born at Fota Wildlife Park. The five-and-a-half-week old female was born to mother Blue and father Hyssop. Classified as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the European bison is the continent's largest land mammal. The European Bison was extinct in the wild but has recently been reintroduced to the mountain ranges of Poland and Romania in a collective conservation effort by many European zoos and wildlife parks - including Fota Wildlife Park. Photograph: Darragh Kane
A man walks his dog in Westport, against a backdrop of a snow-covered Croagh Patrick, after parts of the west woke to the first snowfall this winter. Further snow and gusts of up to 100kmph are expected across parts of Ireland. Met Eireann issued weather alerts for the north and west, with Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo on yellow alert of hail, sleet and snow. Photograph: Paul Mealey
A 'dine-in dome' at the Schoolhouse hotel and pub in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, is prepared by co-owner Karen O'Flaherty, ahead of the reopening of restaurants and gastropubs on Friday. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
A nativity scene carved into a pencil, as part of the 78th Krawkow Nativity Scenes Competition at the Historical Museum in Krakow, Poland. Photograph: Lukasz Gagulski/Poland Out/EPA
The village of Saint-Martin-Vesubie in southeastern France, two months after Storm Alex, which brought heavy rains and brutal flooding, cut the area and its 1,400 inhabitants off. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images
Thousands of ultra-orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Rabbi Aharon David Hadash, spiritual leader of the Mir Yeshiva, in Jerusalem. Rabbi Hadash died two months after being rushed to hospital due to breathing difficulties, and testing positive for coronavirus. Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images
Starlings flying in a tight flock over Nafplio, Peloponnese, southern Greece. Photograph: Bougiotis Vangelis/EPA
Israelis from the Centres For Social Justice wearing masks of prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu (L) and alternate prime minister Benny Gantz, protest for the passage of the social budget and the dissolution of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in Tel Aviv. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images
