Pavel Ciechomovicz rescues his Labrador Nanij from flooding on Main St., Midleton, Co. Cork.

Swimmers at dawn await colleagues returning on Fountainstown Beach, Co. Cork, during the Darkness into Light Charity Swim in aid of suicide prevention charity Pieta House.

A knife is drawn during an altercation outside a protected women's housing scheme.

Sean Foley, a client at Oaklodge Nursing Home, Cloyne, Co. Cork, is visited by his wife Betty during lockdown.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin meets 94-yearold Kathleen Findlay, grand-aunt of Fianna Fáil candidate James O’Connor (background), while canvassing in Youghal, Co.Cork.

Cormorants warm up in early morning sun on The Lagoon, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork

Ciaran Bermingham as 'The Devil' and Sinead Donnelly as 'Jester' in the CIT Cork School of Music’s BA in Theatre & Drama Studies performance of 'The Suicide', a 1928 play by the Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman

Artisan Gold Mining in SW Burkina Faso. Over a 3 month period a camp of 50,000 has grown around this mine in a modern day version of the Klondyke with no running water or medical facilities

A homeless couple sleeping on a Cork City backstreet this morning.

Young ballerinas prepare to perform at the Cork School of Dance's 'CHRISTMAS CRACKER' in the Firkin Crane Theatre in Cork

Martin and Claire O’Sullivan in the kitchen of their home in Kanturk, Co. Cork, where they were being threatened with eviction. Supporters protest outside the house as Claire receives a message saying that bailiffs were outside and about to seize their home.

The late poet Séamus Heaney at the signing of the ‘Great Book of Ireland’ in University College Cork

Photographer John Minihan pictured in UCC with one of his photos of Samuel Beckett.

Martin and Claire O’Sullivan at their home in Kanturk, Co. Cork, just after Claire had been told that bailiffs had arrived to seize their home

A father and son ‘board paddling’ on a beautiful summer’s day off the Maherees, Co. Kerry

Previously conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf at home in Cork following successful surgery

Spring is in the Air! Tibetan Terrier 'Fola' jumps through a field of daffodils

An eerie silence greets visitors to an artisanal goldmine in SW Burkina Faso, West Africa after a tunnel collapse killing a miner. a shanty town of 50,000 people has grown up around the mine over a three month period.

Padraig Kennelly, Newspaper Editor, photographer turns 80

Gardai at the location in Garrettstown Woods, Cork where the body of murdered woman Ann Corcoran (under white sheet) was discovered. Thousands of people had spent weeks searching for her.

A young boy looks through a queue for food in Concern’s Kalinga IDP Refugee Camp, near Masisi, DRC, Congo, where people displaced by internal militia fighting in the country are being housed.

Ombeni prepares for school with her four-year-old son Daniel, watched by her mother, in Bukova, Congo.