1985 in Northern Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 3.1 Football 3.2 Motorcycling 3.3 Rugby Union 3.4 Snooker 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References

[edit] Events

• 28 February - The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
• 15 November - An Taoiseach, Dr. Garret FitzGerald, and the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement at Hillsborough Castle, County Down. Treasury Minister Ian Gow resigns in protest at the deal.

[edit] Arts and literature

• Anne Devlin's play Ourselves Alone is performed for the first time.^[1]

[edit] Sport

[edit] Football

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Glentoran 1 - 1, 1 - 0 Linfield

• Derry City joins the League of Ireland, after being out of senior football since 1972.

[edit] Motorcycling

• Robert Dunlop wins 250cc race at the Cookstown 100.

[edit] Rugby Union

• March 30 - The Irish rugby team wins the Triple Crown and Five Nations Championship at Lansdowne Road. They beat England 13-10.

[edit] Snooker

• April 28 - Dennis Taylor wins the Embassy World Snooker Championship.

[edit] Births

• 1 January - Steven Davis, soccer player.
• 1 February - Dean Shiels, soccer player.
• 3 March - Sam Morrow, soccer player.
• 29 May - Jeff Hughes, soccer player.
• 15 June - Nadine Coyle, singer.
• 29 June - Conall Murtagh, soccer player.
• 14 October - Emmet Friars, soccer player.
• 2 November - John Lowry-Corry, Viscount Corry.
• 18 November - Jonny Harkness, soccer player.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] References