Sources: BBC
A mass shooting in Maguiresbridge, Northern Ireland, leaves three people dead and another seriously injured. 2025-07-23
Northern Ireland reports their first three cases of the 501.V2 variant first detected in South Africa. 2021-02-23
Northern Irish bus manufacturer Wrightbus collapses into administration after buyout talks fail, with 1,200 jobs lost. Local politicians urge action from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who commissioned the so-called "Boris Bus" from the company when he was Mayor of London and previously promised to "do everything we can to ensure the future of" Wrightbus. 2019-09-25
Prosecutors in Northern Ireland charge a former British Army soldier with murdering two people during the mass shooting in Derry during the Troubles in 1972, following a contemporary police investigation. The man, known only as Soldier F, is also charged with three attempted murders. It is also announced that no other charges against either soldiers or civilians will be brought due to insufficient evidence. Soldiers shot 28 unarmed protestors, killing 13. 2019-03-14
Police Service of Northern Ireland received a phone call in the early hours allegedly from a dissident republican group claiming to have planted an explosive in a Curryneirin neighborhood outside Derry, Northern Ireland. Police evacuated 12 homes before finding a device, describing it as "'It's a bomb and designed to kill".2015-02-17
Torrential rain in Northern Ireland causes flooding in the towns of Newry and Newcastle in County Down. 2012-07-5
Former broadcast journalist Mike Nesbitt is elected leader of Northern Ireland's Ulster Unionist Party. 2012-03-31
A stromatolite colony is found at Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. 2011-10-14
Sinn Fein announces that Martin McGuinness, current Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland and former Irish Republican Army commander, will be a candidate for the Irish presidential election with John O'Dowd serving as acting Deputy First Minister. 2011-09-18
Almost 25,000 homes remain powerless after part of Northern Ireland's electricity network is knocked out. 2010-04-1