FINAL NOTES: Eoin O'Connor, from Swords plays the last post at the "standing down" ceremony for the Hauntings Soldier, in St Stephens Green, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
MEDALS: Harry Johnston (83) from Newcastle, Co. Wicklow with his fathers medals (William Johnston who fought in France during the first World War) at the "standing down" ceremony for the Hauntings Soldier, in St. Stephens Green, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
PUSH THROUGH: Ireland's Garry Ringrose is tackled by USA's Paul Lasike at the Autumn Guinness Series Rugby International at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin on Saturday, November 24th. Photograph: Billy Stickland/INPHO
ON YOUR MARKS: Athletes at the start of the senior mens race of the 2018 Irish Life Health National Senior Cross Country Championships at the National Sports Campus, Dublin. Photograph: Bryan Keane/INPHO
RUNNING PACK: A view of the senior women's race at the 2018 Irish Life Health National Senior Cross Country Championships. Photograph: Bryan Keane/INPHO
CLASH: A Turkish female riot police officer reacts during clashes with women's rights activists as they try to march to Taksim Square to protest against gender violence in Istanbul, on November 25th, 2018, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty
JAWS: MacDara Flavin (8) of Barna, Galway, with a set of teeth from a blue shark at the Marine Institute's display at the Galway Science and Technology Festival at NUI Galway on Sunday. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
THE YELLOW VESTS: Protesters wearing yellow vests, as a symbol of French driver's and citizen's protest against higher fuel prices, during clashes with police on the Champs Elysee as part of a nationwide protest in Paris on November 24th. The so-called 'gilets jaunes' (yellow vests) protest movement, which has reportedly no political affiliation, is protesting over fuel prices. Photograph: Julien de Rosa/EPA
STRIKING TWICE: Lightning strikes over the Mediterranean sea during a rainstorm near the city of Ashkelon, Israel on November 23rd. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters
SHOWING YOUR COLOURS: A France fan is pictured during the doubles match between Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut of France and Croatia's Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavic at the Davis Cup Final at Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille, France on November 24th. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
SPEECH: Conservative MP Boris Johnson delivers his speech during the Democratic Unionist Party annual conference at the Crown Plaza Hotel on November 24th, 2018 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
COLD: Grigory Broverman, a member of the Cryophile winter swimmers club, pours a bucket of cold water over his 9-year-old daughter Liza during a celebration of Polar Bear Day at the Royev Ruchey zoo, with the air temperature at about minus 5 degrees Celsius, in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on November 24th. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
RUN TO THE AISLE: Brides compete during the 'Running of the Brides' race event in Bangkok, Thailand on November 24th. The winner receives a fully sponsored wedding as a prize. Photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
WAITING: People sit in a tree as they wait to offer funeral prayers for Mohd Waseem Wagay, a suspected militant, who according to local media was killed in a gun battle with Indian security forces, at Amshipora village in south Kashmir's Shopian district on November 25th. Photograph: Danish Ismail/Reuters
RALLY: A woman attends a rally against gender-based and sexual violence against women in Marseille, France, November 24, 2018. Photograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters
OPENING THE LID: Archaeologists remove the cover of an intact sarcophagus inside the tomb TT33 in Luxor, Egypt on November 24th. Photograph: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
New Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy (centre) with new assistant coaches, Terry Connor (left), and Robbie Keane following a press conference at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday, November 25th. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
CHAMPION'S RETURN: World champion Kellie Harrington shows off her gold medal alongside her parents Yvonne and Christy on her return to Dublin airport on Sunday. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
