Another year, another August Bank Holiday jam-packed with lots to do up and down the length of the country.

Broadcaster Claire Byrne at the Lancome Christmas celebrations and spring-summer collection preview at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin.

Glenda Gilson and Paul McGrath.

Audrey McGrath and Deric Hartigan at the Anglo the Musical in Dublin.

Pic 1: Suzanne Kelly and Janet Fitzharris.

Victoria Mary Clarke and Shane McGowan pictured at Tosca restaurant’s ‘pop-up’ event at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, in aid of Self Help Africa.

Pic 1: At the Skyfall charity screening at the Savoy, Dublin, were Maria Macari and Tara Weston. The screening is in aid of LARCC and the Irish Cinema Benevolent Fund.

Pic 1: Chris O’Dowd and wife Dawn Porter at the Irish premiere of The Sapphires at the Savoy Cinema, Dublin.

Pic 1: Enka Nunkhuu and Ugi Gantsog at the launch of Irish designer Peter O’Brien’s third collection for Arnotts in Dublin.

Pic 1: Broadcaster Gay Byrne and his wife Kathleen Watkins at the opening night of Declan Hughes’s play Last Summer, in the Gate Theatre.

Pic 1: Alesha Dixon at the opening of the Arnotts Shoe Garden at the Dublin store.

Pic 1: Ken Doherty and Lorraine Keane at the Virgin Atlantic International Charity Lunch in aid of the Rape Crisis Centre at the Westin Hotel, Dublin.

Pic 1: Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Katie Taylor, with Brigid Dooley, at the launch of commentator Jimmy Magee’s autobiography Memory Man at The Havelock suite in the Aviva Stadium.

Pic 1: Ronan, Linda and Gary Keating at the Marks & Spencer Marie Keating Foundation celebrity golf classic dinner at the K Club, Straffan, Co Kildare.

Pic 1: At the launch preview of the Brown Thomas BT2 autumn-winter 2012 collection were Ros Scally, Amanda Snee, and Barbara Delaney.

Pic 1: Tom Dunne at the Dublin premiere of new Irish comedy Grabbers, at Cineworld Cinema, Dublin.

Pic 1: Suzanne Wall, from Limerick, at plate day.

Pic 1: Limerick model Mairead Mulqueen at the premiere of the Mark Wahlberg movie Ted at The Odeon, Point Village.

Pic1: At the opening of the Irish Examiner Food Festival at Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork, were Susan and Fionnan O’Sullivan.

Pictures from a gala dinner hosted by Steven Gerrard, at the opening night of Phantom of the Opera and the launch of the Chic Summer Festival

Pictures from the London opening of ‘DruidMurphy –Plays by Tom Murphy’; At the launch of the Campo Viejo Tapas Trail; the opening of Seapoint Clinic’s newly refurbished premises; and Dara O’Briain’s Live at the Marquee gig

Pictures of the week’s nightlife movers and shakers from the Irish Examiner’s social section