People cycle through Massey Woods after heavy snow in Dublin.

Pallbearers carry the coffin containing thirteen skulls that were stolen 133 years ago by British anthropologist Alfred Haddon, as they make their final journey home after a decades-long campaign by islanders to have the remains returned and reinterred to the site they were taken from, as a traditional funeral is held for them, in St. Coleman’s graveyard, on Inishbofin Island.

Humanitarian mission “Black Tulip” in Ukraine exhumes and returns bodies of fallen soldiers to their families on the frontline in the Donetsk region during Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

Dissident republicans throw petrol bombs at an armoured police car after holding an anti-Good Friday Agreement rally on the 25th anniversary of the peace deal, in Derry, Northern Ireland.

Kateryna Zelenska is pulled from the rubble of a Dnipro apartment block destroyed by a Russian air strike. Trapped for 18 hours, she was unable to signal for help, as her sister revealed she is deaf. Her husband and 1-year-old child perished in the attack.

A man jumps off Blackrock diving boards during a heatwave at Salthill beach, in Galway.

A tear drop rolls down a young woman’s cheek aboard a bus after fleeing from Ukraine to Romania, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at the border crossing in Siret, Romania.

A musician reacts during the funeral of late 23-year-old teacher, Ashling Murphy, who was murdered while out jogging, outside St. Brigid’s Church in Mountbolus near Tullamore, Co. Offaly.

Dogs, Buster and Bailey, wear signs during a protest about the rising cost of living in Dublin city centre.

Handlers attempts to help pose prize winning speciality poultry breeds for portraits at the annual Balmoral Show held by the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society.

Minister Edwin Poots outside the Democratic Unionist Party headquarters in Belfast during a vote to replace First Minister Arlene Foster as leader of the DUP. He would only last 21 days in the job.

Firefighters and locals team together to extinguish a wild gorse fire in the Connemara region of County Galway near Inverin before nightfall.

Runners and riders compete in race 6 during the annual one-day Laytown races held on the beach under official horse racing turf club rules in Laytown Co. Meath.

Patrick Rogerson, age 6, sits inside a shelter he made during a protest against the rising cost of housing and rent in front of Government Buildings, Dublin.

People practice social distancing as they pray a rosary on Ballyloughane Beach during the Covid-19 pandemic in Galway.

Torch-lit in a night-time storm. Fog, rain or sun - hardy open sea swimmers weather the Blackrock diving boards in Galway in all conditions, every single day of the year.

Ellie Bermingham poses for a photograph to celebrate “Kiss a Ginger Day” on the 10-year anniversary of this anti-bullying day, in Dublin

Dolores O’Riordan’s mother and daughter are pictured after the Cranberries singer’s funeral at St Ailbe’s Church, Ballybricken, Limerick

A Rohingya refugee girl named Shamima (10) poses for a photograph as she wears thanaka paste in Jamtoli camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton attend an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in Belfast, Northern Ireland

A girl looks at a Boeing 767 airplane in the Sea after being tugged from Shannon airport around the west coast destined for for a Glamping park in Enniscrone.

A plucky seagull attempted to steal a fish from the jaws of a common seal and was met with an unexpected reaction at Kilmore Quay, Wexford.

Several hundred determined people made the Christian pilgrimage of climbing Croagh Patrick in Mayo despite it being cancelled due to treacherous weather and poor visibility in July.

Bernie Kearney's home was destroyed overnight by a landslide of mud sending her car through her kitchen window after torrential rain in Donegal

Runners and riders participate in the Christmas Ballyheigue beach horse races, in Co Kerry.

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ebecca Smyth and her Irish Wolfhound dog called Amazing Grace look at the sunrise during the Winter Solstice at Newgrange

Seafarers and members of the Carna community attend an annual pilgrimage mass on MacDara's Island home to a 6th Century oratory in reverence to St. MacDara the patron saint of fishermen

American sculptor, David Best watches his intricately handcrafted 72 foot tall wooden 'Temple' art installation of memories ceremonially burnt to the ground on a hill overlooking Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Daughters of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds follow his coffin into the church at his funeral in Dublin

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Gabrielle O’Gorman reacts as Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D. formally apologises on behalf of the State for its role in the Magdalene Laundries

Fiona Doyle outside court after hearing that her father, Patrick O’Brien, had received a suspended sentence for his serial rape of her

Runners and riders compete on the beach in the Laytown Races 2014

Judges watch a competitor dive 90ft at the Red Bull Cliff Diving 2014 at the Serpent's Lair on the Aran Islands in Galway

A member of French performance troupe, Campagne Malabar performs in the Galway Arts Festival 2014