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A court in Belfast, Northern Ireland, finds a British soldier not guilty over killings on Bloody Sunday in 1972 in Derry.
2025-10-23

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

In golf, American Wyndham Clark wins the 2023 U.S. Open, his first major championship, after shooting a final-round 70 to finish at 10-under-par and holding off four-time major champion Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland. Clark had never finished better than 75th in a major championship and had missed the cut in his previous two U.S. Opens.
2023-06-18

As a result of the local government failing to reconvene in time, the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 comes into effect. This means abortion is decriminalized in Northern Ireland, and same-sex marriage is scheduled to commence in February 2020.
2019-10-22

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 causes flooding in parts of the United Kingdom, with Cornwall, West Devon, Pembrokeshire and Northern Ireland most affected.
2011-10-24

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