Tough at the top of the Tour

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POWER, PRAYER, PILGRIMAGE: Matthew Seaver, assistant keeper at the National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology, with conservator Carol Smith, make adjustments to a bronze-coated iron hand-bell, dated to the 8th/9th century AD and found at a site near Glendalough, as they prepare for the opening of a new exhibition, Glendalough: Power, Prayer and Pilgrimage, which runs from September 17th at the museum, with free admission. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

EMERGENCY CARD: Moira Skelly (centre left), a family carer, launches a new Emergency Card Scheme for family carers with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and representatives of Family Carers Ireland, the Garda, National Ambulance Service, Order of Malta, Irish Red Cross and Sensory Space. The scheme is intended to give peace of mind to family carers that their loved ones will be provided for should carers have an unplanned hospital admission or accident. Photograph: Mark Stedman

SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland students Malak Almusalhi and Wijdan Alrashaidi at Croke Park, which will host RCSI medical students this September. The RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has teamed up with Croke Park Meetings and Events to create "a unique satellite campus at the historic home of the GAA". RCSI lectures will be held in event spaces in Croke Park for the 2020/2021 academic year. Photograph: Maxwells

GDANSK AGREEMENTS: Former president of Poland Lech Walesa (centre) opens the historic Gate No 2 at Gdansk shipyard, as part of celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Gdansk agreements. On August 31st, 1980, strikers at the shipyard signed a deal with the communist regime enabling the creation of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union. Photograph: Mateusz Slodkowski/AFP/Getty

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