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Northern Ireland announces that it will allow fully-vaccinated travellers from amber list European Union countries as well as the United States to enter without needing to quarantine beginning on August 1.
2021-07-29

Lockdown restrictions are relaxed in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales as the number of cases continues to reduce, with non-essential shops, pubs, gyms, restaurants, hairdressers, community centres, libraries, and theme parks permitted to reopen. Domestic holidays are also permitted again in England with members of the same household. A "stay at home" order is ended in Northern Ireland, and secondary school pupils from years 8–11 return to school.
2021-04-12

Prime Minister David Cameron tells the House of Commons that legal experts advise that the UK-wide Brexit result binds the entire nation, even though Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to stay in the EU. Yesterday, both Scottish and Northern Irish representatives told the European Parliament's plenary session they will leave the UK if that is the required price to keep their homelands fully connected to Europe.
2016-06-29

The 39th G8 summit gets underway in Northern Ireland with the Syrian civil war high on the agenda.
2013-06-17

Three men appear in court in the town of Newry in Northern Ireland to face charges of threatening to kill, INLA membership and blackmail.
2012-04-23

In Northern Ireland, riots mark the culmination of the Belfast marching season.
2011-07-12

A photographer is shot during violence in east Belfast in Northern Ireland.
2011-06-22

Peter Robinson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Northern Ireland First Minister, loses the seat he has held for 31 years in Belfast East to Naomi Long of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
2010-05-7

Flights in and out of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are grounded for several hours.
2010-05-4

Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland's First Minister, admits having previously attempted suicide. Her husband Peter Robinson gives an emotional interview in which he speaks of being "deeply hurt" after learning of her extramarital affair.
2010-01-6