Political vacuum
January 23: A group calling itself "the IRA" claims a bomb attack on Derry courthouse
Running down the clock
February 15: A passionate crowd of schoolchildren have demonstrated in Belfast to demand action on climate change
Westminster girls
March 13: Wilder, wackier but not so funny as the Derry Girls, Amber Rudd and Karen Bradley cause embarrassment to Mother Theresa by referring to Diane Abbott as “coloured”, and describing the security forces murders of innocent Catholics as “dignified". The award that everyone was looking out for, 'Asian Voice Female Politician of the Year' is carried off by who else but Arlene Foster
ATM
April 9: On mainland Britain there is much talk of reintroducing aggressive stop and search methods to deal with an upsurge in knife crime. Here in the north people feel something needs to be done to curb nocturnal digger driving
Lyra
New orange and green
May 4: Naomi Long's Alliance Party and Claire Bailey's Greens celebrated gains in council elections
Clowns
June 14: To those not in the Tory party, the process of electing a new party leader and prime minister seems unedifying and farcical
Avoniel bonfire
July 12: The UVF establishes that it is they, rather than the council or police, who control events in east Belfast
New Lodge kulturfest
August 12:
Border fuss
Deal
Waiting
November 23: A spike in the number of patients travelling across Europe for operations due to Northern Ireland's dire waiting lists has cost the health service almost £1.5m – in a 'last resort' scheme under threat from Brexit