The following details notable events from the year 2005 in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is a country of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. Northern Ireland shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. Incumbents First Minister - Suspended deputy First Minister - Suspended Secretary of State - Paul Murphy (until 6 May), Peter Hain (from 6 May) Events 11 January – During a storm, a lorry was blown off the Foyle Bridge and its driver killed. 30 January – Belfast man Robert McCartney was murdered outside a bar in the city by members of the Provisional IRA. 2 February – The Provisional IRA issued a statement to the Republican newspaper An Phoblacht withdrawing from its commitment to the decommissioning of weapons and other deals related to the Northern Ireland peace process. 9 February – Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a public apology to the 11 members of the Conlon and McGuire families who were wrongly convicted for the Guildford and Woolwich IRA pub bombings of 1974 when seven people were killed. The surviving members of the families were released in 1989 when the scientific evidence against them was discredited. 17 February – Several people were detained by Gardaí for suspected activities in relation to the Northern Bank robbery in Belfast in December 2004. £2.3 million sterling was seized in County Cork. 3 March – Sinn Féin suspended seven members over their alleged involvement in the murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney, who was killed on 30 January. 17 March – Saint Patrick's Day: The sisters and fiancée of murdered Belfast man Robert McCartney met United States President George W. Bush in the United States. 5 May – 2005 United Kingdom general election. 7 May – Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble resigned the leadership after losing his seat in the general election. May – The Police Service of Northern Ireland took delivery of its first helicopter, a Eurocopter EC 135. 23 June – The IRA apologised unreservedly to the family of 14-year-old Kathleen Feeney, whom it shot dead in Derry in November 1973. The IRA had previously blamed the British Army for the killing, and murdered a British soldier in retaliation. 28 July – The Provisional Irish Republican Army ended its armed campaign and ordered all its units to dump arms. The organisation also ordered its members not to