2019 in Northern Ireland

Events from the year 2019 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

• First minister of Northern Ireland – Vacant
• deputy first minister of Northern Ireland – Vacant
• Secretary of state for Northern Ireland – Karen Bradley (until 24 July), Julian Smith (from 24 July)

Events

• 19 January – car bomb attack at a courthouse in Derry, for which the New IRA are the "main line of enquiry".
• 2 May – Elections in all 11 councils in Northern Ireland.
• 18 September – The Historical Enquiries Team finds the British Army responsible for the Killing of Thomas Mills, a 1972 death of a night watchman that had long been attributed to the IRA.
• 12 December – Northern Ireland's 18 seats in the British House of Commons are contested in the 2019 United Kingdom general election. The results are DUP 8 seats (down 1), Sinn Féin 7 seats (no change), SDLP 2 seats (up 2), and Alliance Party 1 one seat (up 1).

Sport

• July – The Open Championship (golf) held at Royal Portrush Golf Club; winner: Shane Lowry.

Deaths

• 21 January – Padraic Fiacc, poet, (born 1924)
• 10 February – Sam McCready, actor, theatre director and playwright, (born 1936)
• 18 April – Lyra McKee, journalist (born 1990)

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