A starling murmuration over Lough Ennell, Co Westmeath. Photograph: James Crombie/INPHO
Donkeys in the cloud-covered foothills surrounding Blessington lakes in Co Wicklow. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Walking the dogs in the snow-dusted Dublin Mountains off Military Road. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Seamus Doyle from Dublin city centre, with his dog Bobby, a Yorkshire Terrier, having breakfast at the Bald Barista coffee shop on Aungier Street. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Harpsichordist Malcolm Proud performs The Goldberg Variations by J S Bach at his home in Kilkenny. Proud will feature in Music for Galway's online Midwinter Festival Goldberg, this weekend. Concerts are available online for 48 hours at musicforgalway.ie. Photograph: Dylan Vaughan
Irish dancer Ruth Charles, ahead of the first TradFest@Home concerts, which will stream over four nights from January 28th, as part of TradFest. See tradfest.ie for further information and tickets. Photograph: Mark Stedman
Walking the beach at Kilkee, Co Clare. Photograph: Eamon Ward
Ravinder Singh Oberoi, the first Sikh member of the Garda reserves, with (from left) his son Jaivir Singh Oberoi, wife Dilmeen Kaur, and father-in-law Gurbir Singh. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
A traffic sign blown down by the wind in Mahon city, Menorca island, Spain. Eighteen out of 19 Spanish regions (all except for the Canaries) are on alert due to low pressure brought by storm Hortense, which will cause gusts of wind of up to 120 kmph, waves up to 8m high and snowfall in mountainous areas. Photograph: David Arquimbau Sintes/EPA
A soldier gets a Covid-19 RT-PCR test done before taking part in the Tableau press preview ahead of Indian Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, India. Indians mark January 26th as the anniversary of the adoption of the constitution in 1950; it is celebrated as India's Republic Day all over the country. Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPA
People line up to get tested for Covid-19 in Beijing, as part of a drive to test two million people in 48 hours, as the city rushes to snuff out a new local cluster of cases believed to be linked to a more contagious virus variant. Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images
Nurses lift a Covid-19 patient at the Pasteur hospital resuscitation unit in Colmar, eastern France. Photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images
Streets are flooded in Shrewsbury, northwest England after Storm Christoph brought heavy rains and flooding across the country. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images
