![Tributes and flowers are left for Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition politician who died in prison, outside the GPO Museum, which hosts an interactive experience telling the story of the 1916 Easter Rising](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F85b781f0-c4ee-4d23-88cf-003829856466.jpg?crop=3024%2C3780%2C0%2C126)
Tributes and flowers are left for Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition politician who died in prison, outside the GPO Museum, which hosts an interactive experience telling the story of the 1916 Easter Rising
LEON FARRELL/ROLLINGNEWS/PHOTOCALL IRELAND
![Jim Meade, the Irish rail chief executive, has worked in Iarnród Éireann throughout his career, beginning in 1983, initially in mechanical engineering](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fc5d806c5-3fb5-4153-89e2-c8eb3e4c0962.jpg?crop=4998%2C3332%2C1%2C0)
Jim Meade, the Irish rail chief executive, has worked in Iarnród Éireann throughout his career, beginning in 1983, initially in mechanical engineering
FRAN VEALE
![Róisín Mohally with her work at her first solo exhibition as part of the annual MTU Registrar’s Prize. Mohally’s work explores loss, absence, and traces of memories](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F4eeff0e9-2210-4db9-9f8e-7022418e4d13.jpg?crop=5000%2C3333%2C0%2C0)
Róisín Mohally with her work at her first solo exhibition as part of the annual MTU Registrar’s Prize. Mohally’s work explores loss, absence, and traces of memories
DARRAGH KANE
![Cillian, six, poses at The National Gallery of Ireland’s exhibition Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer, which runs from February 23 to May 25. The exhibition explores the human face, and painters’ obsession with it](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F36064cfd-a52e-4121-bb09-5ee091acfc60.jpg?crop=2700%2C1800%2C0%2C48)
Cillian, six, poses at The National Gallery of Ireland’s exhibition Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer, which runs from February 23 to May 25. The exhibition explores the human face, and painters’ obsession with it
NAOISE CULHANE PHOTOGRAPHY
![Catherine Cotter, cellissimo ambassador with Galway Cello, pictured at Heuston Station, Dublin, ready to join the Iarnród Éireann Cellissimo Carriage to Galway, for the launch of Cellissimo 2024 — a feast of International classic and contemporary music, running in Galway from May 18 to 26](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F29342831-3367-45c2-932d-5c2ed8fa2898.jpg?crop=3600%2C2400%2C0%2C57)
Catherine Cotter, cellissimo ambassador with Galway Cello, pictured at Heuston Station, Dublin, ready to join the Iarnród Éireann Cellissimo Carriage to Galway, for the launch of Cellissimo 2024 — a feast of International classic and contemporary music, running in Galway from May 18 to 26
MARC O’SULLIVAN
![Moises Bueke Dones, general manager of 777 restaurant on South Great Georges Street, prepares cocktails](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F272155e3-e2c0-4067-9d3e-2ae7dbbc0a25.jpg?crop=5000%2C3333%2C0%2C0)
Moises Bueke Dones, general manager of 777 restaurant on South Great Georges Street, prepares cocktails
BRYAN MEADE FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES
![Jack Crowley, rugby union fly-half for Munster and the Irish national team, appeals for Puppy Raisers for Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind. Crowley, 24, said puppy-raising was “part of my family life growing up”](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F7877c024-be74-48d0-9133-5d2e16386549.jpg?crop=1197%2C798%2C2%2C0)
Jack Crowley, rugby union fly-half for Munster and the Irish national team, appeals for Puppy Raisers for Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind. Crowley, 24, said puppy-raising was “part of my family life growing up”
JOHN ALLEN PHOTOGRAPHY
![Ben Kerr Smyth, eight, with a portraits by artist Zsolt Basti — part of the Spréacha Soar Festival for Children and Young People, a week of 23 shows inspired by Dublin’s young people and the culmination of the Nest project, under which 23 multidisciplinary artists have produced works mapping the world through the eyes of children and young people](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F6b866ca8-cdc1-4d08-ae73-1aa03af1c58a.jpg?crop=3372%2C4215%2C0%2C553)
Ben Kerr Smyth, eight, with a portraits by artist Zsolt Basti — part of the Spréacha Soar Festival for Children and Young People, a week of 23 shows inspired by Dublin’s young people and the culmination of the Nest project, under which 23 multidisciplinary artists have produced works mapping the world through the eyes of children and young people
STEDMAN PHOTOGRAPHY
![Sophie and Emma Magnier and Bernadette Curran get lost in a book for Ireland Reads Day, back for its fourth year and encouraging people across the country to visit their local library and rediscover all it has to offer](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F4a665727-2b3a-4a40-97fd-408173a5655e.jpg?crop=3600%2C2400%2C0%2C0)
Sophie and Emma Magnier and Bernadette Curran get lost in a book for Ireland Reads Day, back for its fourth year and encouraging people across the country to visit their local library and rediscover all it has to offer
ANDRES POVEDA.
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