1989 in Northern Ireland

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 determinationBBC News Road to Peace Timeline] .
*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.

Arts and literature

port

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

*Football 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.

nooker

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

Births

*1 January - Andrew Simpson, actor.
*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 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).

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