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Events during the year 2006 in
Northern Ireland .
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
(
Antrim 5–13 : 1–07
Carlow )
(
Derry 5–15 : 1–11
Donegal )
Ireland claimed the
triple crown
5 January –
Merlyn Rees 85, third
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland .
7 January –
Alf McMichael , footballer (born 1927).
8 January –
Tony Banks, Baron Stratford , former Labour Party MP and Minister for Sport (born 1943)
4 April –
Denis Donaldson ,
volunteer in the
Provisional Irish Republican Army , member of
Sinn Féin , exposed in 2005 as an informer (born 1950).
11 April –
Siobhán O'Hanlon ,
Sinn Féin official (born 1963).
30 April –
Billy McComb ,
magician and
comedian (born 1922).
22 May –
Richard McIlkenny , one of the
Birmingham Six .
21 June –
Denis Faul , monsignor, Northern Ireland civil rights activist, chaplain to prisoners in
Maze Prison during
1981 Irish Hunger Strike (born 1932).
17 August –
Ken Goodall , international rugby player (born 1947).
20 August –
Bryan Budd ,
Parachute Regiment
Corporal killed on active service in
Afghanistan and posthumously awarded the
Victoria Cross (born 1977).
5 September –
Anne Gregg travel writer and TV presenter (born 1940).
9 September –
Darran Lindsay , motorcycle road racer, killed while practising (born 1971).
14 November –
John Hallam , actor (born 1941).