Belfast Pride 2022 parade is most likely to have been the biggest march of its kind in the city, according to a preliminary assessment from police.
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‌Pride celebrates LGBT+ people and culture and Northern Ireland's very first Pride parade took place in Belfast in 1991.

Due to Covid-19, the festival was urged to move online in 2020 and 2021. This meant organizers lost the opportunity to publicly celebrate the parade's 30th-anniversary last year.

The number of people who turned out to march or watch the event was more than the 60,000 who attended the last parade in 2019. This was the first Belfast Pride March to take place in three years. The 2020 and 2021 parades were suspended because of the pandemic.

Organizers said more groups than ever had enrolled to take part in the march. "We are over the moon and joyous to be back," the event's co-chair Cara McCann told BBC News NI.

Source: BBC News.