A local dog joins a photocall marking the Arts Council’s new all-island dance company with dancer Vitor Barboza Da Silva on Sandymount Strand.

A full ‘Blue’ moon rises behind Poolbeg lighthouse as seen from Clontarf, Dublin.

Justine Nguyen at the summer solstice on the Hill of Tara in Co. Meath.

The supermoon rising behind the Baily Lighthouse in Howth, Co. Dublin.

A lone stag wanders through mist in Phoenix Park at sunrise during the annual rut.

Renowned Irish sand artist Sean Corcoran sprawls beside his 110-ft wide Red Kite, created on Killmurin Beach, Co. Waterford, to celebrate St. David’s Day during Ireland’s first ever Wales Week.

Photographer and visual artist Hazel Coonagh beside her Elements series of embroidered portraits projected on Phoenix Park Wellington Testimonial.

Maya Bracknell Watson at the Winter Solstice at Newgrange, Co. Meath

A lone surfer enjoying the final sunset of the year over the Atlantic Ocean at Carrowniskey Strand, near Louisburgh, Co. Mayo

Friends enjoy a sunset ride on their Connemara ponies in Co. Mayo

Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy takes a closer look at a model of Cherrywood Town Centre which will develop 1,269 new apartments in South Dublin

A digger creates trenches in bogland in the midlands

Alex Milton, NCAD’s Head of Design at the announcement of this year’s season of exhibitions

First year students from St. Joseph’s Secondary School, Rush, Co. Dublin, pose for a class photo with their digital schoolbooks on the first day of term

Funnyman Jason Byrne takes a comedy leap

The Queen and the President united at the Garden of Remembrance

An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern T.D. and Minister for Environment Dick Roche T.D. launch the new cycle path from Sutton to Sandycove.

A delegate finds a political speech tiresome at Ard Fheis.