Sources: BBC
The second consecutive night of disorder in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, sees 17 police officers injured and five people arrested as protests spread to Belfast, Carrickfergus, and Newtownabbey. 2025-06-10
Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster announces her resignation after losing the support of her Democratic Unionist Party in the aftermath of the riots. 2021-04-28
Northern Ireland enters a six-week lockdown in an effort to reduce the number of COVID-19 infections. All "non-essential" shops and businesses will be closed, while "essential" shops must close each day by 20:00 GMT during the first week of the lockdown. No gatherings will be allowed between 20:00 and 6:00 each day, and anyone travelling to Northern Ireland must self-isolate for at least 10 days. 2020-12-26
Northern Ireland reports 1,299 new daily cases in the last 24 hours, its highest number of a single day yet, bringing the cumulative total at 25,177. 2020-10-16
Northern Ireland reduces the number of people allowed in outdoor gatherings to 15 people and limits indoor gatherings in private dwellings to six individuals from two households amid a rise in cases. 2020-08-20
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
Peter Robinson, the First Minister of Northern Ireland, steps aside after the Democratic Unionist Party fails to get enough support to adjourn the assembly. 2015-09-10
A bomb explodes in a bank in the city centre of Derry, Northern Ireland; no damage is done. 2011-05-21
A controlled explosion is carried out on a device discovered beneath the car of a serving soldier, believed to be an army major, in Bangor, County Down in Northern Ireland. 2010-08-4
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