2020 in Northern Ireland

Incumbents

• First minister of Northern Ireland – Arlene Foster
• Deputy first minister of Northern Ireland - Michelle O'Neill
• Secretary of state for Northern Ireland – Julian Smith, Brandon Lewis

  Events

January

• 9 January – The UK and Irish governments publish a deal aimed at restoring the Northern Ireland Executive; the Democratic Unionist Party gives its backing to the agreement.
• 10 January – Sinn Féin gives its backing to a deal to restore power-sharing government to Northern Ireland for the first time since 2017.
• 11 January – The Northern Ireland Assembly reconvenes after a three-year hiatus; DUP leader Arlene Foster is appointed Northern Ireland's first minister, while Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill is appointed deputy first minister.
• 13 January – Same-sex marriage is legalised in Northern Ireland.

  February

• 5 February - the PSNI found a Continuity Irish Republican Army bomb in a lorry in Lurgan, County Armagh.
• 11 February – The first same-sex marriage ceremony to be held in Northern Ireland takes place at a hotel in Carrickfergus, County Antrim.
• 27 February – Authorities confirm the first case of coronavirus in Northern Ireland.

  Sport

Deaths

• 9 January – Jimmy Shields, football player
• 24 January – Seamus Mallon, Gaelic footballer and politician
• 14 February – Godfrey O'Donnell, priest
• 16 February – Harry Gregg, football player, Munich air disaster survivor
• 13 March – Ivan Davis, politician
• 17 March – Betty Williams, political activist

  Specific issues

• 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election

  General news sites

• Articles

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