Until 2008, elected officials were allowed to change political party, while retaining their seats, during set windows which occurred twice each electoral term, due to controversial floor crossing legislative amendments made in 2002.

In Round 5, 2002, Sydney escaped with a controversial 8. 8 ( 56 ) draw, but only after St Kilda's Nick Dal Santo missed a shot after the siren that would have won the Saints the match.

He was however dismissed as party leader in February 2002 due to controversial remarks he made in a newspaper interview on immigration-related issues, and instead founded LPF a few days later.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, use of Jaŋalif was revived, but the Cyrillic script was again enforced in 2002, when the Russian Federation passed a controversial law enforcing the use of Cyrillic for all official languages.

The most recent case of such an occurrence was the controversial passing of an immigration law in the Bundesrat in 2002, when the delegates of Brandenburg failed to come up with the unanimous vote that the Basic Law requires of each Land's delegation in the Bundesrat.

" We regard ourselves as the custodians of an extremely interesting and controversial document ," said Yale librarian Alice Prochaska in 2002, " and we watch the scholarly work on it with great interest.

The sport is controversial, particularly in the UK, where it was banned in Scotland in 2002, and in England and Wales in November 2004 ( law enforced from February 2005 ), though shooting foxes as vermin remained legal.

* Greek electronic game ban: The bill 3037 / 2002, a controversial attempt to fight illegal gambling, is declared a law in Greece.

* Whitelaw was portrayed by John Standing in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis's controversial The Falklands Play.

The university announced a controversial agreement with Microsoft in 2002.

Choi Hong Hi ( 9 November 1918 – 15 June 2002 ), also known as General Choi, was a South Korean army general and martial artist who is a controversial figure in the history of the Korean martial art of taekwondo.

A series of controversial interest rate swaps, initiated in 2002 and 2003 by former Commission President Larry Langford ( removed as the mayor of Birmingham after his conviction ), were intended to lower interest payments, but have, in fact, had the opposite effect, increasing the county's indebtedness to the point that officials have issued formal statements doubting the county's ability to meet its financial obligations.

A New Kind of Science is a best-selling, award-winning, controversial book by Stephen Wolfram, published in 2002.

In 2002, The Hartford Courant ran a controversial investigative series called " Heroin Town " describing rampant heroin use in Willimantic, disproportionate to the town's small size.

Tower Park is a centerpiece of the community which underwent sweeping and controversial renovations in 2002, costing the Village nearly $ 800, 000. 00.

In late May, controversial comments Norris allegedly made in 2002 were raised on a talk radio show.

Following a transitional period, he won the 2002 presidential election, which lacked meaningful opposition participation ; he was again re-elected under controversial circumstances in the 2009 presidential election.

The Magdalene laundries caught the public's attention in the late 1990s as claims of widespread abuse from some former inmates gathered momentum and were made the subject a controversial film called The Magdalene Sisters ( 2002 ).

In April 2002 during Israel's controversial military operation codenamed Defensive Shield, Kaufman gave a speech to the House of Commons, saying in part:

In 2002 she made a controversial speech concerning men's oppression of women, in which she said " The discrimination and the violations appears in different shapes depending on where we find ourselves.

In February 2002, the German television network ARD broadcast a controversial documentary film, Es begann mit einer Lüge (" It began with a lie "), which accused the then German defence minister Rudolf Scharping of manipulating the facts of the Račak killings to obtain support from the public and parliament for Germany's involvement in the multinational force in Kosovo.

Such clauses have often proved highly controversial – for instance, that in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 which prompted the aforementioned report, and the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006.

* January 10-Stephen Ambrose, controversial historian ( died 2002 )

In 2002, French journalist Thierry Meyssan wrote a controversial book called 9 / 11: The Big Lie, which argued that the 9 / 11 attacks were the result of a conspiracy by the United States government.

Castroneves repeated his Indianapolis 500 win in 2002 despite controversial circumstances involving a late race caution and a pass made by Tracy, and his teammate de Ferran won in 2003.

* 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian ( d. 2002 )

Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora ( 2002 ), popular

* Irish Whip Wrestling, an Irish-owned independent professional wrestling promotion established in 2002

* 1970 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor ( d. 2002 )

After a series of high-profile guerrilla actions, including the hijacking of an aircraft, the attack on several small towns and cities, the arrest of the Irish Colombia Three ( see below ) and the alleged training of FARC-EP militants in bomb making by them, and the kidnapping of several political figures, Pastrana ended the peace talks on 21 February 2002 and ordered the armed forces to start retaking the FARC-EP controlled zone, beginning at midnight.

Terence Alan Patrick Seán " Spike " Milligan KBE ( 16 April 191827 February 2002 ) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor of English and Irish parentage.

* April 16 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian ( d. 2002 )

** Richard Harris, Irish actor ( d. 2002 )

* October 21 – Derek Bell, Irish musician ( d. 2002 )

An Irish version of the competition called Challenging Times ran between 1991 and 2002.

* Stone of Destiny, an Irish reel written in 2002 by Maurice Lennon of the folk goup Stockton's Wing

* 2002: Ecologues in Extremis, Royal Irish Academy

The Irish government, having obtained the Seville Declaration on Ireland's policy of military neutrality from the European Council, decided to have another referendum on the Treaty of Nice on Saturday, 19 October 2002.

B * Witched were an Irish girl group that was active between 1998 and 2002.

Richard St John Harris ( 1 October 1930-25 October 2002 ) was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer.

Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn ( 28 May 1970 – 3 December 2002 ) was an Irish actor in television and film, known for playing Mark Healy in the American sitcom Roseanne, and Doyle, a half-demon, on the 1999 – 2004 television series Angel, a spin-off series of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Her 2002 album, Sean-Nós Nua, marked a departure in that O ' Connor interpreted or, in her own words, " sexed up " traditional Irish folk songs, including several in the Irish language.

The show has gone on to have series in over 100 other countries, and in 2002, the UK version merged with the Irish version.

In 2002, state papers released by the British Public Record Office under the ' Thirty Year Rule ' and published in the Irish media, revealed how Hillery was viewed.

He came out of retirement to campaign for a " yes " vote in the second Irish referendum on the EU's Treaty of Nice, held in 2002.

Parnell on the Irish pound | Irish £ 100 note ( 1990 to 2002 )

The devolved administration was suspended several times ( especially between 15 October 2002 and 8 May 2007 ) because the Ulster Unionist Party and Democratic Unionist Party were uncomfortable being in government with Sinn Féin when the Provisional Irish Republican Army had failed to decommission its arms fully and continued its criminal activities.

In 2002, Scallon contested a seat in Galway West in the Irish general election, again as an independent.