The Irish Times images of the day, selected by picture editor Brenda Fitzsimons
BUCK UP: A buck in a herd of fallow deer on a frosty morning in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
SWAN BREAK: Alan McDermott and his daughter Darcy (2) feed ducks and swans on the river Barrow at Milford, Co Carlow. Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times
GULL POST: Gulls stand on a slipway on the river Liffey in Dublin's city centre. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
TESTING TIMES: Lab technicians and medical scientists work on swabs at the RocDoc rapid Covid test centre based at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
HONDURAS SNAPSHOT: Hondurans who are part of a new caravan of migrants heading to the US try to climb a truck, in Cofradia. Photograph: Jose Valle/EPA
SLED HUNT: Katie Uhlaender of the US in action during the women's Skeleton World Cup event in St Moritz, Switzerland. Photograph: Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA
HOLY SNOW: A chapel in St Denis and surrounding vineyards are seen after heavy snowfalls in eastern France. Photograph: Patrick Hertzog/AFP via Getty Images
STARLING POWER: A flock of starlings sits on electricity cables near the West Bank city of Jericho, in the Jordan valley. Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA
OUT IN THE COLD: A woman waits at a bus stop in Zurich, Switzerland. Photograph: Ennio Leanza/EPA
BULL-TAMING FESTIVAL: A bull charges participants during an annual bull-taming festival in Palamedu village on the outskirts of Madurai, India. Photograph: Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty Images
INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE: Rescuers search for survivors in Mamuju city, after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island. Photograph: Mawardi/AFP via Getty Images
ROBOTIC DELIVERY: A robot serves customers at a Japanese robot restaurant amid a new wave of Covid-19, in Bangkok, Thailand. Photograph: Narong Sangnak/EPA
