Sources: BBC
A court in Belfast, Northern Ireland, finds a British soldier not guilty over killings on Bloody Sunday in 1972 in Derry. 2025-10-23
The European Court of Human Rights announces that the Republic of Ireland has launched legal action against the United Kingdom over a law that gives amnesty to soldiers and militants involved in decades of violence in Northern Ireland. 2024-01-19
A former British paratrooper will stand trial in the killing of two civil rights protesters during a massacre, where British soldiers shot 13 protesters during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. 2023-12-14
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
The family of Pat Finucane, murdered during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, win a declaration from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom that the investigation into his killing was sufficiently ineffective to amount to a failure of the state's obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. The Supreme Court stops short of mandating a public inquiry as requested by the family. Members of the security services are accepted to have colluded with Finucane's murderers, but the scale and nature of collusion is unclear. 2019-02-27
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
A bomb explodes in a bank in the city centre of Derry, Northern Ireland; no damage is done. 2011-05-21
Thousands of people march in Derry, Northern Ireland, in memory of those killed by British troops in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre of civil rights protesters and local bystanders. It is intended to be the final such march after the British government admitted last year that its troops had been responsible for carrying out the Bogside massacre. 2011-01-30
A car bomb explodes in Derry, Northern Ireland, injuring no one. 2010-08-3
Almost 25,000 homes remain powerless after part of Northern Ireland's electricity network is knocked out. 2010-04-1