A weak stream of sunlight has marked the winter solstice at Newgrange in Co Meath.

Some 100 people were inside the chamber at daybreak.

Most of them had won a lottery to be there, while hundreds more gathered outside.

A beam of sunlight enters the chamber of the ancient tomb at dawn on the shortest day of the year.

It was misty there this morning, but a thread of sunlight entered the chamber at around 9am marking the winter solstice.