1989 in Northern Ireland
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[edit] Events
- 8 January - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes onto the M1 motorway on the approach to East Midlands Airport killing 44 people.
- 12 February - Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is shot dead by loyalists.
- 5 March - Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin, says he wants a non-armed political movement to work for self determination[1].
- 20 March- Chief Superintendent Harry Breen and Superintendent Bob Buchanan of the Royal Ulster Constabulary are killed by the IRA.
- 3 November - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Brooke, says the IRA cannot be entirely defeated militarily and talks could follow an end to violence[1].
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Sport
[edit] Football
- October 11 - The Republic of Ireland beat Northern Ireland 3–0 in a World Cup Qualifier at Lansdowne Road.
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- Winners: Linfield
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- Winners: Ballymena United 1 - 0 Larne
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- Winners: Derry City
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- Winners: Derry City 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Cork City
[edit] Motorcycling
- Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc race at the Cookstown 100, the Macau Grand Prix and the 125cc race at the Isle of Man TT.
[edit] Snooker
- 3 April - Alex Higgins beats Stephen Hendry to win the British Benson and Hedges snooker championship.
[edit] Births
- 1 January - Andrew Simpson, actor.
- 14 January - Dave McClements, soccer player.
- 24 January - Adam McGurk, soccer player.
- 6 February - Craig Cathcart, soccer player.
[edit] Deaths
- January - Jackie Wright, comedian (b.1905).
- 12 February - Pat Finucane, solicitor murdered by loyalist paramilitaries (b.1949).
- 26 February - Joseph Fenton, estate agent killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for acting as an informer (b. c1953).
- 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).
