Foliage explodes from a bed in an abandoned hotel on the West Coast of Ireland. The hotel closed six years ago and is now only visited by urban explorers.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern photographed in the Skylon Hotel, Drumcondra.

Foliage explodes from a bed in an abandoned hotel on the West Coast of Ireland. The hotel closed six years ago and is now only visited by urban explorers.

Former Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Sean Fitzpatrick leaves the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after he was acquitted, on charges of misleading Anglo Irish Bank's auditors, by direction of the judge

A large group of handmaids protest outside Leinster House, as the Oireachtas Committee on the 8th Amendment starts its public sessions

JP Rodgers reflects at the unmarked mass grave of nearly 800 infants who died in the former Bon Secours run mother-and-baby home in Tuam

Gale force winds connect with the high tide in Lahinch, Co Clare, during the storms, which hit the country in February

Members of the public explore ‘Miracoco’, a luminarium designed by Architects of Air UK, as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival

Aarush Shukla (8) poses with a candle for the launch of Diwali, Festival of Lights at City Hall in Dublin.

Former chairman and executive of Anglo Irish Bank, Sean Fitzpatrick walks out of Bray Garda Station after he was arrested at bis home by the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation and questioned at length about financial irregularities at the bank.