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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announce the United Kingdom and European Union had reached an agreement on post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland after a protracted row over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
2023-02-27

The Cabinet Office announces that eight British towns will become cities as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee. The new cities are Milton Keynes, Colchester, and Doncaster in England, Dunfermline in Scotland, Wrexham in Wales, and Bangor in Northern Ireland, as well as Stanley, Falkland Islands, and Douglas, Isle of Man, which become the first towns in the British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, respectively, to receive city status.
2022-05-20

Irish republican party Sinn Féin win the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly with 29% of the first-preference vote, marking the first time that a unionist party did not win the most seats since Northern Ireland's establishment in 1921.
2022-05-7

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

Restaurants, cafés, non-essential shops, and other venues that serve food, reopen in Northern Ireland after two weeks of lockdown. However, pubs that do not serve food will remain closed.
2020-12-11

The village of Derrylin, close to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, is sealed off after a suspicious object is found. The object is later determined to be “nothing untoward”.
2019-03-16

A car bomb explodes outside a courthouse in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The bomb exploded as the area was being evacuated, and there were no injuries. Investigations currently point responsibility for the attack towards the New IRA dissident organisation.
2019-01-19

Schools and hospitals are closed in Ireland and Northern Ireland as the extratropical cyclone Ophelia is forecasted to make landfall on the island.
2017-10-16

A total of 56 police officers are injured in Belfast, Northern Ireland after a night of Ulster loyalism rioting.
2013-08-10

Bishop of Down and Connor Noel Treanor says at St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast in Northern Ireland that the "crimes and sins of abuse of children and minors by clergy and religious" are "faith-shaking".
2010-04-2