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In Pictures: Northern Ireland’s turbulent 2020

Selected images marking an incredible year for Northern Ireland.

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Royal visits, legal firsts, a breakthrough at Stormont, and of course – the pandemic; here are some of the best images from the PA news agency’s Northern Ireland photographers during 2020.

Boris Johnson, Arlene Foster, Michelle O'Neill and Julian Smith
Boris Johnson, Arlene Foster, Michelle O’Neill and then-Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith at Stormont, as the devolved administration was restored in January after three years of bitter stalemate (Brian Lawless/PA)
Duchess of Cambridge and an alpaca
The Duchess of Cambridge strokes an alpaca during a February visit to The Ark Open Farm, at Newtownards, near Belfast (Liam McBurney/PA)
Covid-19 testing
A nurse demonstrates Covid-19 virus testing procedures at Antrim Area Hospital in March (Michael Cooper/PA)
Boy bangs his drum
Thomas Black, four, from Market Hill in County Armagh, bangs a Lambeg drum to salute local heroes during a nationwide Clap for Carers initiative to recognise and support NHS workers and carers fighting the coronavirus pandemic (Niall Carson/PA)
Gorse fire
Firefighters tackle a gorse fire in Newry in April (Niall Carson/PA)
Black Lives Matter protests
Artist Micky Doc puts the finishing touches to a mural of George Floyd at Belfast’s International Wall on the Falls Road in June. Mr Floyd was killed on May 25 while in police custody in the US city of Minneapolis (Brian Lawless/PA)
A-level results protest
Zara Meadows, an AS-level student from Belfast Royal Academy, poses during an August protest at the Northern Ireland Education Authority in Belfast, over Northern Ireland Minister of Education Peter Weir’s decision on A-level results (Liam McBurney/PA)
Rescued curlew
A young curlew in flight after being released into the wild around Lough Neagh in September after being rescued from a peatland fire (Liam McBurney/PA)
Man enjoys a pint
Phil Goldstraw enjoys a pint in the Hole in the Wall pub in Armagh as it reopened in September after Covid-19 restrictions (Peter Morrison/PA)
Joanna Sloan
Nurse Joanna Sloan becomes the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the first of two Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine jabs, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, in Belfast on December 8 (Liam McBurney/PA)
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