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1 February – At Stormont, MLAs vote to set a target date for Northern Ireland to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. [11] 4 February – First Minister Paul Givan resigns as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party over disagreements regarding the Northern Ireland Protocol. [12] Sinn Féin call for an early election as a result.
Schedule 2 of the Act specifies the nine public holidays to which employees in Ireland are entitled to receive time off work, time in-lieu or holiday pay depending on the terms of their employment. [14] In 2022 only, Friday 18 March was a public holiday, to recognise the efforts of the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]
3 August – Media Nation 2023, a report published by the UK media watchdog Ofcom, indicates that Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls was the most watched television programme in Northern Ireland during 2022. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where a Channel 4 programme featured in the top ten most watched shows. [48]
Northern Ireland is a small place — fewer than 2 million people — but over the course of the Troubles, the sheer numbers of deaths and disappearances, imprisonment and injuries, left few ...
23 April – Northern Ireland records a day without any COVID-related deaths. [57] 24 April – No COVID deaths are recorded in Northern Ireland for a second consecutive day. [58] 28 April – Families of care home residents want to know why hospital patients were discharged to homes without being tested for COVID-19. [59]
1 March – SSE plc, Northern Ireland's largest supplier of gas, announces it will cut its prices by 22.8% from April. [49]4 March – Funding for Northern Ireland's only free specialist counselling service for victims of sexual violence is extended for a year as a replacement provider had not been lined up in time for the expiry of the contract with Nexus on 31 March.
Charlie’s Bar has served the residents of Enniskillen, a small town in Northern Ireland about 80 miles southwest of the capital, Belfast, since 1944 and has stayed in the same family for that time.
The leader of Northern Ireland's biggest pro-British political party hopes to receive a "definitive" response from the British government on its concerns over post-Brexit trade within weeks, but ...