2018 in Northern Ireland
Events during the year 2018 in Northern Ireland.
Incumbents
- First Minister – Vacant
- deputy First Minister – Vacant
- Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – James Brokenshire, Karen Bradley
Events
- 8 January – Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff was suspended from all party activity for three months after he posted a video online that relatives of the victims of the 1976 Kingsmill massacre described as callous and offensive. He resigned as an MP a week later.
- 15 January – Resignation of Sinn Féin MP, Barry McElduff, which will result in a by-election for West Tyrone on 3 May; the seat is retained by Sinn Féin.
- 10 October – In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of the U.K. rules the Christian owners of Ashers Baking Co. were not obliged by law to make a cake featuring the words "Support Gay Marriage".
The arts
- 4 January – Sitcom Derry Girls, set in the 1990s, premieres on Channel 4 television.
- 4 April – The BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards take place at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.
- May – Anna Burns' novel Milkman, set in a fictionalised Belfast during The Troubles, is published; on 16 October it is awarded the Man Booker Prize, making the author its first winner from Northern Ireland.
Deaths
- 22 February – Gladys Maccabe, painter
- 3 March – Arthur Stewart, footballer
- 7 July – William Dunlop, motorcycle racer, collision during practice
- 10 July – John Laird, Baron Laird, Unionist politician
- 5 September – Robert Coulter, Unionist politician, MLA for Antrim North
- 22 September – Jo Gilbert, film producer and casting director, brain tumour
- 4 October – Bertie McMinn, footballer, cancer
- 11 October – Jimbo Simpson, UDA paramilitary, lung cancer, 60