Michelle O’Neill became Northern Ireland’s first nationalist First Minister, and a couple found love after being stuck in Belfast for four months because of the delayed departure of the Villa Vie Odyssey cruise ship.
Courtesy of photographers from the PA news agency, here is the year in pictures in Northern Ireland.
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