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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

Rioting takes place in Plymouth and Birmingham, England, while police are attacked with molotov cocktails in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as the number of people arrested rises to 400.
2024-08-5

In west Belfast, Loyalist youths hijack a bus and set it on fire. A photographer is also assaulted and his cameras are damaged.
2021-04-7

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

The analogue TV signal in Northern Ireland is turned off permanently at 23:30 BST, completing the final stage of the UK digital switchover. "Ceefax", the world's first teletext information service, is also brought to an end after 38 years.
2012-10-23

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and former IRA commander and Sinn Féin deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness shake hands at a historic meeting in Belfast.
2012-06-27

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

People are hospitalised after sectarian clashes in East Belfast in Northern Ireland.
2011-06-20

Three Northern Ireland police officers are injured after a bomb is thrown at them while investigating a robbery in West Belfast.
2010-11-6

A car bomb explodes shortly after midnight near Northern Ireland's MI5 headquarters in Holywood, County Down, blowing an elderly man off his feet and sending him to hospital.
2010-04-12