2015 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

Events

January

February
  • 17 February – The Police Service of Northern Ireland received a phone call, allegedly from a dissident republican group, claiming to have planted an explosive in a Curryneirin neighborhood outside Derry. Police evacuated 12 homes before finding a device, saying, "It's a bomb and designed to kill".[2]

March
  • 11 March – A major fire occurred in Derry. The blaze broke out at around 12:50 GMT on the Queens Quay area of the city. One hundred and thirty fire fighters were at the scene. Major disruption was caused around the city but no-one was hurt.
  • 13 March – Northern Ireland faced its biggest strike yet with teachers, public transport, ambulance staff, civil servants, and others striking because of staff and budget cuts. It caused major disruption across the province.
  • 15 March – Mothering Sunday.
  • 17 March – Saint Patrick's Day (public holiday).[1]
  • 29 March – Palm Sunday. Clocks went forward one hour when British Summer Time (BST) began.[1]

April
  • 1 April- Northern Ireland's brand new super councils came down from 26 to just 11.
  • 3 April – Good Friday (public holiday).[1]
  • 6 April – Easter Monday (public holiday).[1]
  • 15 April – A fishing boat, the Karen, with nets in the water, was dragged backwards rapidly in the Irish Sea, 30 kilometres from Ardglass, County Down, at the Calf of Man. The trawler was badly damaged but the four crew members were unhurt; they suspected they were dragged by a Russian submarine.[3][4]

May

June

July

August
  • 31 August – August public holiday.[1]

October

December
  • 25 December – Christmas Day (public holiday).[1]
  • 26 December – Boxing Day (actual date).[1]
  • 28 December – Boxing Day (observed).[1]

Sports


Association football
International friendly matches
Euro 2016 qualifiers

Deaths
gollark: > Isolating that elsewhere is also not good for various reasons I indicated before.
gollark: That could be solved with multiple off-topics.
gollark: You have to see *some small amount* of them, which is much more manageable.
gollark: Oh, NOW it pings me somehow?
gollark: You have a reasonable point that you can be nice to people inside a conversation but (possibly inadvertently) non-nice to those outside it. I think niceness within conversations is more important, as people outside them can more easily choose not to participate in them, but this doesn't work excellently. Banning discussion of anything some people do not like reading is *a* fix for some of this, but I don't like the tradeoffs, given the wide range of things in this category. Isolating that elsewhere is also not good for various reasons I indicated before. A generalized rule-4-y approach could end up doing basically the same thing as preemptively banning it, and people seem dissatisfied with "ignore the channel for a bit". Thus, I'm unsure of how the issue can be solved nicely and it's worth actually investigating the options.

See also

References
  1. All Holidays for 2015 Bank Holiday Dates for Northern Ireland. Retrieved: 2014-12-18.
  2. "Derry security alert: 'It's a bomb and designed to kill'".
  3. Russian submarine blamed for NI trawler incident RTÉ News, 2015-04-16.
  4. Irish trawler dragged by suspected submarine Irish Times, 2015-04-16.
  5. INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY - SCOTLAND -V- NORTHERN IRELAND, 25th MARCH 2015 Archived 19 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Irish Football Association, 2014-12-16.
  6. Northern Ireland v Finland UEFA. Retrieved: 2014-12-18.
  7. Northern Ireland v Romania UEFA. Retrieved: 2014-12-18.
  8. Faroe Islands v Northern Ireland UEFA. Retrieved: 2014-12-18.
  9. Northern Ireland v Hungary UEFA. Retrieved: 2014-12-18.
  10. Northern Ireland v Greece UEFA. Retrieved: 2014-12-18.
  11. Finland v Northern Ireland UEFA. Retrieved: 2014-12-18.
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