Ethel McDonagh and daughter Lacey Leah (2), sit in a neighbour’s caravan as their home is removed following an eviction notice at a halting site at Woodland Park, Dundalk, Co Louth. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Home being removed for transportation following an eviction notice at a halting site at Woodland Park, Dundalk, Co Louth. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
At the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival launch were Linjia Zheng (5) and Christina Chang, both from Dublin, with a Chinese unicorn, at the Smithfield fruit and vegetable market. The festival will run for two weeks from February 6th. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Irish artist Jesse Jones, whose No More Fun and Games exhibition will feature, at the launch of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane's programme of exhibitions for 2016, Artist as Witness, at Parnell Square, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Students from Largy College, Clones, Co Monaghan, performing at the launch of a new partnership between Ulster Bank and Young Social Innovators, the biggest civic and social innovation programme in Ireland. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Shauna Keyes pictured in Tullamore six years after her son Joshua died in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, after he was delivered by caesarean section. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
At the launch of Tradfest Front Row Sessions, a series of 13 free concerts around Temple Bar, are Ryanne Sands, Aoife Scott, Sorcha Turnball and Eimear Keane upstairs at the Porterhouse, Parliament Street, Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin with pupils from Our Lady of the Wayside National School, Bluebell, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Carmel and Martin Naughton, this year’s winners of the Community Foundation for Ireland’s Philanthropist of the Year Awards. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Ahmed Zakaria, a former detainee in Syria where he was imprisoned for 56 days under the Assad regime, at the Caesar Exhibition on the reality behind the Syrian refugee crisis, at the RHA, Ely Place, Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
The scene at Woodbine Park Post Office, Booterstown, Dublin after it had been raided during the week. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Leslie Greer, who worked as an analyst during the second World War helping to break German code at Bletchley Park in England. See Peter Murtagh interview this week with Ms Greer. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Gardaí search the Grand Canal bank having begun a murder investigation following the discovery of human remains in Ardclough, Co Kildare. The remains later proved to be those of west Dublin man Kenneth O’Brien. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Speakers on stage at the Theatre of Change Symposium, at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. From left: Gideon Levy, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Mark O’Halloran, Mary McAuliffe, Jaki Irvine, Nuala Hayes, Penny Arcade, Fiach MacConghail, Sarah Jane Scaife, Zoe Lafferty, Lian Bell, Dominic Campbell, Dr Emer O'Toole, Dr Susan Cahill and Fearghus O Conchuir. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
