1982 in Northern Ireland

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Events during the year 1982 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

Monarch - Elizabeth II

Events
  • 19 February - The DeLorean Car factory in Belfast is put into receivership.
  • 23 February - Attacks on shipping in Lough Foyle (1981-1982): Glasgow-registered coal ship St. Bedan is bombed and sunk by a Provisional Irish Republican Army unit driving a hijacked pilot boat in Lough Foyle.
  • 6 April - James Prior launches 'rolling devolution' for Northern Ireland.
  • 10 May - Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is appointed to Seanad Éireann.
  • 20 October - Polling takes place in the Northern Ireland Assembly election. Sinn Féin wins its first five seats in the Assembly, with Gerry Adams representing Belfast West (announced 21 October).[1]
  • 27 October
  • 11 November - The killing of three unarmed IRA members at an RUC checkpoint in Craigavon, County Armagh.
  • 24 November - The killing, by an RUC undercover unit, of Michael Tighe and the wounding of his friend Martin McCauley at an IRA arms cache on a farm near Lurgan, County Armagh.
  • 12 December - The killing at an RUC checkpoint in Mullacreavie, County Armagh, of two INLA members, Seamus Grew and Roddy Carroll. The shootings are initially investigated by other members of the RUC, and the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland decides to bring prosecutions. At the first trial, Constable John Robinson admits to having been instructed to lie in his statements, and that other witnesses had similarly altered their stories to provide justification for opening fire on Grew and Carroll. When Robinson is found not guilty, the resulting public outcry causes RUC Chief Constable John Hermon to ask John Stalker to investigate the killings. On 5 June 1986, just before Stalker is to make his final report, he is removed from his position in charge of the inquiry.
  • 6 December - Droppin Well bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen people in a bomb attack at the Droppin Well Inn, Ballykelly, County Londonderry.

Arts and literature

Sport

Football
  • Football World Cup
    • Group stage
    • Second group stage
      • Northern Ireland 2-2 Austria
      • Northern Ireland 1-0 France
      • Northern Ireland are knocked out at the quarter final stage of the World Cup
  • Irish League
Winners: Linfield
Winners: Linfield 2 - 1 Coleraine

Motorcycling
  • Joey Dunlop wins the Formula One motorcycle world championship for the first time.

Rugby Union
  • The Ireland rugby team wins the Triple Crown for the first time since 1949 by beating Scotland 21-12 on 21 February, having already beaten Wales and England.

Snooker
  • Alex Higgins wins the World Professional Snooker Championship for the second time.

Births

Full date unknown

Deaths
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See also

References
  1. "1982: Sinn Féin triumph in elections". On This Day. BBC. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  2. "1982: RUC officers killed by IRA bomb". On This Day. BBC. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  3. "Anne Devlin". Alan Brodie Representation. Archived from the original on 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
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