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Images of the Weekend
Selected by deputy picture editor Brenda Fitzsimons
POWDER SHOWER: Participants celebrate at the end of the Color Run 2018 in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The 5k event has no winners or prizes, and runners are showered with coloured powder at stations along the route. Photograph: Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images
GET ‘EM TIGER: Trainer Gordon Elliot with Grand National winner Tiger Roll during their homecoming parade through Summerhill Village, Co Meath. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
RIDING THE WAVES: Windsurfers ply their trade off Dollymount Strand in Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
NATION MOURNS: A funeral procession for Winnie Mandela held at Orland Stadium in Soweto, South Africa. Photograph: Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images
MOSQUE BUILDERS: Kosovans work on the construction of a new mosque as the sun sets on the outskirts of Pristina. Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images
BUCHENWALD COMMEMORATION: Survivor Alexander Bytschok of Kiev, Ukraine, mourns during a commemoration ceremony marking the 73th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. Photograph: Jens Meyer/AP Photo
LANGUAGE RIGHTS: Thousands of people attended an Irish language street festival in Dublin city centre at the weekend, coming from all over the country for the ‘Beo’ (Alive) event. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
100 YEARS LATER: Mayor of Wexford Cllr Jim Moore, Dr Mary Green (great-granddaughter), and President Michael D Higgins at the Redmond Mausoleum at St Johns Graveyard, Wexford, for a centenarial commemoration of John Redmond MP (1856-1918). Photograph: Patrick Browne
EXPLOITATION SUSPECTED: Four Ghanaian men named as Noel Selorm Adabblah, Joshua Kojo Baafi, James Effirim and John Ninson, at a garage in Finglas, Dublin, where they had been sleeping. It is suspected the four were trafficked into the country for exploitation in the fishing industry, and they have been taken into the care of the State. Photograph Nick Bradshaw
PYONGYANG CELEBRATIONS: Spectators enjoy a fireworks display over the Taedong river during celebrations marking the anniversary of the birth of former North Korean leader Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang. Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
BIG SPLASH: Residents enjoy a hosing during the third day of the Thingyan water festival in Yangon, Myanmar. Large groups of people congregate during the festival to celebrate by splashing water and throwing powder at each other, symbolising cleansing and washing away of sins of the previous year. Photograph: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
ANTI-AIRPORT PROTESTERS: Protesters face anti-riot officers of the Gendarmerie mobile security forces during an ongoing operation to clear the ZAD (Zone to defend) anti-airport camp in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, northwestern France. Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images
PROVINCIAL TOWNS CUP: A scrum collapses during the Bank of Ireland Provincial Towns Cup rugby semi-final between Tullow RFC and Wicklow RFC at Cill Dara RFC in Kildare. Photograph: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
COMMONWEALTH GAMES: Competitors in a road race on Day 10 of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Currumbin Beachfront in Gold Coast, Australia. Photograph: Michael Dodge/Getty Images
TOUGH AT THE TOP: Faith Obazuaye of Nigeria competes against Melissa Tapper of Australia during the Women's TT6-10 Singles gold medal table tennis match during the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Oxenford Studios in Gold Coast, Australia. Photograph: Matt Roberts/Getty Images
HOCKEY CLASH: Sukri Mutalib of Malaysia strikes the ball in a hockey match against Scotland during the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast Hockey Centre, on the Gold Coast, Australia. Photograph: Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images
PEOPLE OF THE YEAR: Winners are pictured at the 43rd Rehab People of the Year Awards, in St Stephen's Green, Dublin. The Awards recognise people for heroic deeds and remarkable achievements. Photograph: Robbie Reynolds
LISMORE CASTLE ARTS: Lucy Dawe Lane, lecturer at CIT Crawford College of Art and Design; Maeve Brennan, exhibiting artist at St Carthage Hall; Kate Brindley, director of collections and exhibitions at Chatsworth House and Lismore Castle Arts, and Paul McAree, curator at Lismore Castle Arts, at the launch of exhibitions by Rashid Johnson and Maeve Brennan at Lismore Castle Arts. Photograph: Clare Keogh
