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The Giant's Causeway ( Irish: Clochán an Aifir) [ 1] is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. [ 3][ 4] It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills . It was declared a World Heritage Site by ...
Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police) 5 July 1940. Killed in a fall from his bicycle while reporting for duty in the blackout. Cecil Robert Budden. PC. 27. Dorset Constabulary (now Dorset Police) 19 May 1957. Fatally injured in a collision with a car while on motorcycle patrol.
FedEx Cup winner. 2016, 2019, 2022. Rory Daniel McIlroy MBE (born 4 May 1989) is a Northern Irish professional golfer who is a member of both the European Tour and the PGA Tour. [ 5] He is former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, and has spent over a hundred weeks in that position during his career.
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom [ 1][ 2] (although it is also described by official sources as a province or a region [ 3][ 4] ), situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It was created as a separate legal entity on 3 May 1921, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. [ 5]
Although Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom, it has a quite distinct party system from the rest of the country, as the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats do not contest elections there (though the Liberal Democrats have links with the Alliance Party ), and the Conservative Party has received only limited support in recent elections.
The Irish News is the only independently-owned daily newspaper based in Northern Ireland, and has been so since its launch on 15 August 1891 as an anti-Parnell newspaper by Patrick MacAlister. [4] It merged with the Belfast Morning News in August 1892, and the full title of the paper has since been The Irish News and Belfast Morning News.
Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, PC (18 February 1921 – 3 March 1977), was the sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, from March 1971 until his resignation in March 1972. He was also the chief executive of the short-lived Northern Ireland Executive during the first half of 1974.
The Northern Ireland Office is led by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who sits in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. Much of the population of Northern Ireland identifies with one of two different ideologies: unionism (which wants the region to remain part of the United Kingdom) and Irish nationalism (which wants a united Ireland).