Images of the Day

Tuesday's best pictures as selected by Deputy Picture Editor Laura Hutton

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Neasa O’Shea launches ‘Féile Lughnasadh’, this years Irish traditional festival in Milltown, Co Kerry. It takes place from Thursday 28th - Sunday 31st July. The theme for this years festival is the ancient Lughnasadh Celtic celebration, which heralds the beginning of harvest and gathering of the first crop of fruit and grain. Headlining the event is World-renowned Sharon Shannon showcasing her mercurial talents with her band, drumming with Urs Wenk and Celtic lore from the Dingle Druid. Photograph: Valerie O’Sullivan

Model Thalia Heffernan wearing Rachel Maguire 'Rashhiiid' pink hat €230 as Brown Thomas launches CREATE 2022, a celebration championing Ireland’s most exciting and talented designers today. Now in its 12th year, CREATE 2022 presents the exceptional talent of 27 designers across ready-to-wear, handbags, accessories, jewellery, hats, shoes and ceramics. Photograph Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times

Image from Launch of a coastal biodiversity and seagrass report in TCD. Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan TD attended at the TCD pavilion with the Coastwatchers. Pictured are Karin Dubsky, environmental activist, the coordinator and co-founder of Coastwatch Europe, an environmental NGO and a member of the European Environmental Bureau showing the Minister Some of the invasive Japanese Wireweed (Sargassum Muticum) to the Minister. Photograph Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times

Britain's Health Secretary Sajid Javid leaves at the end of a cabinet meeting in Downing Street in London. Javid resigned on Tuesday after a slew of scandals undermined the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In his resignation letter to Johnson, Javid said "it is clear to me that this situation will not change under your leadership - and you have therefore lost my confidence too". Photograph: Justin Tallis / AFP

Dr Jo Meacock (left), curator from Glasgow Art Museum and Morlin Ellis curator at the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland during the installlation of Salvador Dali's painting 'Christ of St John of the Cross' at the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland, County Durham. The artwork has been transported from its usual home at the Glasgow Life Museum to displayed alongside El Greco's 'Christ on the Cross', uniting two Spanish masterpieces. Photograph : PA

Bangladeshi children look out from the window of a train as people travel to their home villages to celebrate Eid-al-Adha, at the Kamlapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal and split the meat into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy. Photograph : EPA

Tue Jul 05 2022 - 18:37

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