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Events during the year 2006 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

Events
  • 30 January – Postal workers entered a 20-day wildcat strike disrupting most of Belfast's delivery service.
  • 25 February – Rioting took place in Dublin as Republican protesters organised counter protests to a "Love Ulster" (Unionist) parade in the city, which subsequently became violent.
  • 17 March – New Oncology Centre was opened at Belfast City Hospital.
  • 15 May – The members of the Northern Ireland Assembly were recalled 3½ years after the assembly was suspended, with a view to electing an executive, and having the suspension lifted.
  • 22 May – Belfast City airport was renamed George Best Belfast City Airport on what would have been George Best's 60th birthday.[1]
  • 1 July – President Mary McAleese and leading representatives of all political parties in Ireland, north and south, marked the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme at the National War Memorial, Islandbridge.
  • 18 July – SS Nomadic (1911) returned to Belfast, where she was built.[2]
  • 11 October – Multi-party political talks on Northern Ireland were held in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, ending on 13 October and resulting in the St Andrews Agreement.
  • 18 October – Northern Ireland overtook the Republic of Ireland in the FIFA rankings for the first time.[3]
  • 24 November – Loyalist Michael Stone, attempted to bomb the Northern Ireland Assembly on the first day of the 'transitional assembly' following the St Andrews Agreement and when nominations for first and deputy first minister were due to be made.[4][5]

Government

Arts and literature

Sport

Athletics
  • 18 February–19 February – Irish Indoor Athletics Championships, Odyssey Arena, Belfast.
  • Northern Ireland competed in the Commonwealth Games claiming two silver medals

Football
  • European Championship Qualifiers[8]
2 September – Northern Ireland 0–3 Iceland
6 September – Northern Ireland 3–2 Spain
7 October – Denmark 0–0 Northern Ireland
11 October – Northern Ireland 1–0 Latvia

Gaelic games
(Antrim 5–13 : 1–07 Carlow)
(Derry 5–15 : 1–11 Donegal)

Golf

Ice Hockey

Motorcycling

Rugby Union
Ireland claimed the triple crown

Deaths
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See also

References
  1. "Airport History". George Best Belfast City Airport. Archived from the original on 2011-10-12. Retrieved 2012-04-04.
  2. "Nomadic reaches Odyssey complex". BBC. 2006-07-16. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
  3. BBC article on Northern Ireland's Ranking
  4. Stormont attack devices defused (BBC news)
  5. Ahern welcomes further 'clarity' from Paisley (RTÉ news)
  6. Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 16 January 2007.
  7. McCreary, Matthew (2008-02-08). "Festival future looks bright with £1m deal". The Belfast Telegraph. p. 3.
  8. "Highs and lows on the road to Euro". UEFA Euro2008 - Northern Ireland. Archived from the original on 2007-12-30. Retrieved 2008-01-27.
  9. O'Hara, Victoria (2008-01-29). "Best memorial plan rescued by fan". The Belfast Telegraph. p. 3.
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