Events

• 24 June - Northern Ireland Minister Michael Mates resigns over links with tycoon Asil Nadir.^[1]
• 23 October - Shankill Road bombing carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast. There were 10 fatalities, including the bomber.
• 30 October - Greysteel massacre carried out by Ulster Freedom Fighters, at the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel. Eight civilians were shot dead.
• 9 December - Danny Blanchflower dies of Alzheimer's disease aged 67.
• 15 December - Albert Reynolds and John Major issue their joint Downing Street Declaration.

Arts and literature

• Ciar n Carson's First Language: Poems collection is published and wins the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Sport

Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Bangor 1 - 1, 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Ards (all matches after extra time)

Motorcycling

• Robert Dunlop wins 125cc race at the Cookstown 100.

Births

Kevin Kyle - 5th July

Deaths

• 23 March - Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon (b.1911).
• 14 September - Sheelagh Murnaghan, only Ulster Liberal Party Member of Parliament at Stormont (b.1924).
• 23 October - Thomas Begley, Provisional Irish Republican Army member killed planting a bomb (b.1970).
• November - Jimmy McAlinden, footballer and football manager (b.1917).
• 9 December - Danny Blanchflower, footballer and football manager (b.1926).

References