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Images of the Day: Thursday, January 25th

Selected by Deputy Picture Editor Brenda Fitzsimons

Thu 25 Jan 2018
WINTER’S END Sorb children – Sorbs are a Slavic ethnic minority in Germany – in traditional clothes parade to mark Ptaci Kwas, or Birds’ Wedding, a festival held every January 25th, when birds thank children for feeding them during the winter, marking the season’s end. Photograph: Matthias Schumann/Reuters
WINTER’S END Sorb children – Sorbs are a Slavic ethnic minority in Germany – in traditional clothes parade to mark Ptaci Kwas, or Birds’ Wedding, a festival held every January 25th, when birds thank children for feeding them during the winter, marking the season’s end. Photograph: Matthias Schumann/Reuters
BEHIND BARS An Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest outside Leinster House calling for the release from prison of Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old activist who has regularly confronted Israeli soldiers. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
BEHIND BARS An Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest outside Leinster House calling for the release from prison of Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old activist who has regularly confronted Israeli soldiers. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
VOLCANIC ERUPTION Smoke billows from Mount Mayon, near Our Lady of the Gate church in Daraga, south of Manila, in the Philippines. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
VOLCANIC ERUPTION Smoke billows from Mount Mayon, near Our Lady of the Gate church in Daraga, south of Manila, in the Philippines. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
SNOW PATROL Soldiers stand guard on the roof of a hotel in Davos, the Swiss resort that hosts the World Economic Forum. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty
SNOW PATROL Soldiers stand guard on the roof of a hotel in Davos, the Swiss resort that hosts the World Economic Forum. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM President Donald Trump and the US delegation arrive in Davos. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM President Donald Trump and the US delegation arrive in Davos. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty
BREXIT DEBATE Hilary Benn, chairman of the House of Commons committee on exiting the EU, at Dublin City University’s Brexit, Ireland and the Future of Europe conference. Photograph: Alan Betson
BREXIT DEBATE Hilary Benn, chairman of the House of Commons committee on exiting the EU, at Dublin City University’s Brexit, Ireland and the Future of Europe conference. Photograph: Alan Betson
WINGS OF A DOVE An AF Vandevorst design at the label’s spring-summer couture show, in Paris. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty
WINGS OF A DOVE An AF Vandevorst design at the label’s spring-summer couture show, in Paris. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty
ADRIAN DONOHOE APPEAL On the fifth anniversary of the detective’s murder, during the armed robbery of a Co Louth credit union, Chief Supt Christy Mangan and Supt Gerry Curley ask the families of his killers to “do the right thing” and come forward with information. Photograph: Deborah McAleese/PA Wire
ADRIAN DONOHOE APPEAL On the fifth anniversary of the detective’s murder, during the armed robbery of a Co Louth credit union, Chief Supt Christy Mangan and Supt Gerry Curley ask the families of his killers to “do the right thing” and come forward with information. Photograph: Deborah McAleese/PA Wire
BORIS JOHNSON’S EUROPEAN ROOTS This 230-year-old mummy found in a Swiss church has reportedly been identified by scientists as the British foreign secretary’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Anna Catharina Bischoff. Photograph: SRF/PA Wire
BORIS JOHNSON’S EUROPEAN ROOTS This 230-year-old mummy found in a Swiss church has reportedly been identified by scientists as the British foreign secretary’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Anna Catharina Bischoff. Photograph: SRF/PA Wire
TOUCHDOWN Dylan Farrelly scores Rockwell College’s second try against Castletroy College in the Clayton Hotels Munster schools senior cup play-off, at Clanwilliam RFC in Co Tipperary. Photograph: Ken Sutton/Inpho
TOUCHDOWN Dylan Farrelly scores Rockwell College’s second try against Castletroy College in the Clayton Hotels Munster schools senior cup play-off, at Clanwilliam RFC in Co Tipperary. Photograph: Ken Sutton/Inpho
CHILLY COMMUTE Muscovites are silhouetted on their bus on a frosty morning. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
CHILLY COMMUTE Muscovites are silhouetted on their bus on a frosty morning. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
RAIL CRASH Derailed trains in Pioltello, on the outskirts of Milan, in Italy. Photograph: Reuters
RAIL CRASH Derailed trains in Pioltello, on the outskirts of Milan, in Italy. Photograph: Reuters

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WATCHING THE WILDLIFE: Members of the public view an outdoor photographic exhibition, One Lock Further, a photographic celebration of the canals in Dublin, which is showing at Charlemont Place, with pictures by photographer Allen Kiely and produced by Tom Lawlor. Photograph: Dara Mac DĂłnaill

Images of the Day

Currach rowers and members of Draiocht Na Life Tomas Madden and Frank Tate  during their weekly practice which takes them from Poolbeg Yacht and Boat club to Island Bridge, tide permitting. 
Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Images of the Weekend

ROOF SONGS: Faye O'Rourke performing a 'Rooftop Lullaby' on the roof of Studio 10, Wicklow Street as part of  a presentation by Sofft Productions which will see artists sing reworked and reimagined versions of Irish classic songs and lullabies to the city of Dublin and her people before, during and after dusk. The performances will be free to view online from Sunday, April 25th at 8pm at MusicTown Youtube Channel.
Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

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TRAFFIC INCIDENT: M50 staff work to get a lorry, which overturned on the motorway's northbound carriageway under the Red Cow intersection, back on its wheels on Thursday morning. The lorry caused huge tailbacks on the M50 for a period of time. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

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WORD ON THE STREET: Neighbours enjoy a chat, on Florence Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac DĂłnaill/The Irish Times

Images of the Day

LITERATURE FESTIVAL: Author John Banville and Alisha Katongole (8) pictured with a life-sized person made of books in the Peace Garden in Dublin, to mark the announcement of the programme for International Literature Festival Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

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