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Olympic torch, day 17 – in pictures

Olympic torch day 17
Seamus Reynolds carries the torch on an eight-man rowing boat on the river Bann.
Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
Olympic torch day 17
Jean Jones holds the flame aloft in front of Dunluce Castle. Photograph: Locog/Getty Images
Olympic torch day 17
Heather McCarroll takes the torch through Coleraine. Photograph: Locog/Getty Images
Olympic torch day 17
Ella-Rose Sainsbury passes the flame to Mark Horton on Downhill beach, near Coleraine. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
Olympic torch day 17
Peter Jack holds the flame aloft on the Giant's Causeway, County Antrim. Photograph: Locog/Getty Images
Olympic torch day 17
Clare Leahy and Denis Broderick transport the torch over the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge near Ballintoy. Photograph: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images
Olympic torch day 17
Republican protesters forced a detour for the torch in Derry… Photograph: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images
Olympic torch day 17
… but the flame was soon back on track. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP
Olympic torch day 17
On the final leg of the day, Darrel Harpur brought the torch to the Olympic beacon. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA
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