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Images of the week
Selected by picture editor Frank Miller
IN THIS TOGETHER: A woman holds her dog as she arrives to high ground after evacuating her home due to floods caused by Tropical Storm Harvey along Tidwell Road in east Houston, Texas. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters
MY HERO: Marine Corps League member Jeff Webb of Montgomery, Texas, and rescue diver Stephan Bradshaw, of South Carolina, rescue a dog that was chained to a flooded porch as a result of Tropical Storm Harvey, in Lumberton, Texas. Photograph: Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News via AP
HELPING HAND: An elderly woman is carried to dry ground as she evacuates a neighbourhood in west Houston inundated by floodwaters after water was released from nearby Addicks reservoir in Houston, Texas. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP
FLUSHED OUT: People displaced by flooding rest at a temporary shelter at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston. Photograph: Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times
A PROMISING START: Maya Laszczyk with her mother Magda, in junior infants during first day at school in Balbriggan Educate Together NS, Co Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
NEXT STEP: Cancer survivor Isobel Cullinan heads for her first day in school with her mother Laura in Strokestown, Co Roscommon. Photograph: Brian Farrell
AULD LAMMAS FAIR: Thousands of people flock to Ballycastle in Co Antrim for the start of this year's Auld Lammas Fair. One of the oldest fairs in Ireland, visitors see street entertainment and dozens of market stalls. Photograph: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker
IS IT SAFE? Performers Stephen Maloney and 'Dentist' Hugo McIntyre at the Salty Dog stage during a press preview of the Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally, Co Laois. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
IN THE MEADOW: Sparrows in a meadow on Clare Island, Co Mayo. Photograph: Jerry Kennelly
TOP OF THE CLASS: New Naval Service recruit Conor Douglas from Castlebar, Co Mayo, with his son Adam after his passing out parade in Haulbowline, Co Cork. Photograph: Michael MacSweeney/Provision
CLASH OF THE ASH: Former Galway hurlers Tom Quinn from Ballinderreen and P J Mahony, Ardrahan, clashing the ash at Quinn's Hardware yard in Labane in Galway as Shane Quinn, James Coen and Pat Quinn, of Ardrahan keep an eye on proceedings. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy.
HALAWA TRIAL: Ibrahim Halawa's sisters, Nosayba and Fatima at a press conference in Buswells Hotel in Dublin. The young Irish man's trial in Cairo was delayed again this week after his family had been led to believe he would be released. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
DUTCH PROTEST: A baby in a stroller passes by life jackets, displayed by international anti-poverty organisation Oxfam Novib as a reminder of the suffering of refugees, in front of the Dutch parliament at the Binnenhof in The Hague. Photograph: Robin Utrecht/AFP/Getty Images
PEOPLE'S PRINCESS: Royal John Loughrey outside Kensington Palace in London, where flowers and tributes were laid to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA Wire
FESTIVAL FUN: Shane O'Callaghan (Macroom), Anna Aular (Venezuela), John O'Riordan (Cork), Gregg Hartnett (Cork), and Jerly Vivas (Venezuela) at the Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally, Co Laois. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
