1989 in Ireland

1989 in Ireland

Events

*January 2 - Dundalk, County Louth celebrates its 1200 year heritage.
*February 12 - Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is shot dead by loyalists,
*March 21 - Three Irish soldiers on United Nations duty are killed in a landmine explosion in southern Lebanon.
*April 3 - Belfast-born Alex Higgins beats Stephen Hendry to win the British Benson and Hedges snooker championship.
*April 4 - The Windmill Lane Consortium says that if it gets the franchise it will be on the air within 9 to 12 months with its station TV3.
*June 16 - Ray McAnally, one of the country's most versatile actors, dies suddenly.
*June 22 - an order is signed creating the University of Limerick, the first university founded since the foundation of the state, later in the day Dublin City University is created
*June 29 - Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach. He remains on in a caretaker capacity.
*August 19 - 10,000 people march from Dublin city centre to the British Embassy calling for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland.
*September 4 - Century Radio goes on the air for the first time.
*October 19 - Three of the Guildford Four are released in London. Paul Hill is immediately re-arrested.
*December 21 - Aer Rianta's 5,000,000th passenger is presented with a holiday to Florida.

Arts and literature

port

Golf

*Carroll's Irish Open is won by Ian Woosnam (Wales).

Gaelic football

*The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final ends on a scoreline of Cork GAA 0–17 Mayo GAA 1–11

Hurling

*The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final ends on a scoreline of Tipperary GAA 4-24 Antrim GAA 3-9.

occer

*11 October - The Republic of Ireland beat Northern Ireland 3–0 in a World Cup Qualifier at Lansdowne Road.
*15 November - The Republic of Ireland win 2-0 in Malta to secure qualification for the World Cup for the first time.

Births

*8 January - Ian Bermingham, soccer player.
*12 February - Cian Byrne, soccer player.
*24 February - Noel Haverty, soccer player.
*3 March - Barry O'Rorke, Gaelic footballer and hurler.
*9 June - Chloë Agnew, singer.
*2 July - Omero Mumba, actor.
*5 August - Eoin Bishop, comedian and Leinster rugby player.

Deaths

*24 January - Michael Scott, architect (b.1905).
*January - Jackie Wright, comedian (b.1905).
*11 March - Simon Curley, cricketer (b.1917).
*7 April - Frank Cluskey, former leader of the Labour Party (b.1930).
*15 June - Ray McAnally, actor (b.1926).
*July - Eddie Gannon, soccer player (b.1921).
*3 August - Dominic Behan, songwriter, novelist and playwright (b.1928).
*10 August - H. Montgomery Hyde, barrister, author and Ulster Unionist MP (b.1907).
*12 September - Seamus Twomey, twice chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (b.1919).
*4 November - Vivian Mercier, literary critic (b.1919).
*14 December - Gerry Healy, British Trotskyist leader (b.1913).
*22 December - Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize in Literature 1969, playwright, novelist and poet (b.1906).

Full date unknown

*Hugh Baker, cricketer (b.1906).
*Peadar Livingstone, priest and historian (b.1930).
*Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, writer (b.1926).
*John Mackey, Limerick hurler (b.1914).


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