How 2022 unfolded: War in Ukraine, turmoil at Stormont and Westminster and the death of Queen Elizabeth

As we prepare for the new year, Mark Bain takes a look back at the highs and lows of the last 12 months

Flowers on Belfast’s Shankill Road following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September (Credit: Brian Lawless/PA)

Mark Bain

Twelve months ago, as the world moved into 2022, we were glad to see the back of 2021. A year before we’d been glad to see the back of 2020.

Things, as the song goes and so we thought, can only get better, right?