Best dressed competitors unwind before the annual style event at Punchestown Racing Festival in Co.Kildare

President Michael D. Higgins inspects his first guard of honour following his inauguration as President of ireland.

Hugh O'Rahilly from Dublin explores a time capsule at a preview of the National Leprechaun Museum in Dublin. - March 2010.

United In Grief... Geraldine McDonnell a former resident of Goldenbridge comfort's Joseph Prendergast a former resident of St Joseph's School Navan Road at the march of solidarity for victims of institutional abuse from Parnell Square to Leinster House, Dublin.

About face... The Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore launching the Labour Party Local Elections Manifesto with a poster display in Molesworth Street, Dublin.

Crutch Of Hope... A childs shoe tied to a senior citizens cane displayed during the silent march of solidarity for victims of institutional abuse from Parnell Square to Leinster House

Grainne Close right, and her partner Shannon Sickels the first lesbian couple to have their 'wedding' under the new civil partnership law in Belfast in December 2005

The Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams retaliates after a snowball ambush by youths during the local-election campaign in Trim, Co Meath, in February 2005

The Belgian musician Toots Thielemans plays harmonica at the Cork Jazz Festival in October 2000

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern takes a phone call in his car after turning the sod for a new library at Dublin City University in January 1999