CHRISTIANS are celebrating Good Friday at Masses and services across Northern Ireland.
The day - one of the most important in the Christian calendar - saw dozens take part in a Journey to the Cross procession from Ormeau Park to Cooke Centenary Church in south Belfast.
Worshippers and others lined the route as a cross was carried - symbolising Christ's crucifixion.
In Derry, a retelling of the Passion was staged on the city's famous walls.
The play, which combines live performances, music and drama will be staged twice again tomorrow.
Written by playwright Jonathan Burgess, the play explores how an act of violence at a peace festival in Derry threatens to push the world into turmoil.
Meanwhile, pubs and clubs in Northern Ireland are able to stay open for longer this Easter for the first time.
Legislation to extend opening hours was passed at Stormont last year.
The legislation was the biggest change to the north's licensing laws since 1996.
Colin Neill, from Hospitality Ulster, said bars and restaurants had been looking forward to the change "for years".
He said the legislation had been a "shot in the arm for the entire hospitality industry as it emerges from a protracted period of pandemic closure".
