1992 in Northern Ireland

1992 in Northern Ireland

Events

*January 20 - Peter Brooke offers to resign as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland following criticism of his singing on The Late Late Show only hours after an IRA bomb explodes.
*February 4 - Mary Robinson becomes the first President of Ireland to visit Belfast. On the same day an off-duty RUC officer in Belfast kills three people in a Sinn Féin office before committing suicide.
*February 5 - Loyalist gunmen kill five Catholics in an attack on a bookmaker's shop in Belfast.
* April 9- United Kingdom general election, 1992
*September 23 - The IRA destroys Belfast's forensic science laboratory with a huge bomb.

Arts and literature

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Glentoran

*Irish Cup::Winners: Glenavon 2 - 1 Linfield

Golf

*New Strand course at Portstewart Golf Club, designed by Des Giffin, opened for play. The Irish Amateur Championship was played there.

Births

Deaths

*20 March - Michael MacLaverty, novelist (b.1904).
*16 April - Stanley McMaster, barrister and Unionist Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1974 (b.1926).
*13 May - F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (b.1909).
*25 November - Pearse Jordan, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer killed by RUC (b.1969).


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