1989 in Northern Ireland

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

Events

• 8 January - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 on a flight to Belfast 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]

Arts and literature

Sport

Football

• October 11 - The Republic of Ireland beat Northern Ireland 3–0 in a World Cup Qualifier at Lansdowne Road.

• Irish League

Winners: Linfield

• Irish Cup

Winners: Ballymena United 1 - 0 Larne

• League of Ireland

Winners: Derry City

• FAI Cup

Winners: Derry City 0 - 0, 1 - 0 Cork City

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.

Snooker

• 3 April - Alex Higgins beats Stephen Hendry to win the British Benson and Hedges snooker championship.

Births

• 14 January - Dave McClements, soccer player.
• 24 January - Adam McGurk, soccer player.
• 6 February - Craig Cathcart, soccer player.

Deaths

• January - Jackie Wright, comedian (b.1905).
• 12 February - Pat Finucane, solicitor killed 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).

References