1987 in Northern Ireland

Events

*8 May - The SAS kills 8 IRA members and a civilian in an ambush at Loughgall.
*8 November - 11 civilians are killed in an IRA explosion during a Remembrance Day service in Enniskillen. (See: Remembrance Day Bombing)

Arts and literature

*Ciarán Carson's "The Irish for No" poetry collection is published and wins the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.

port

Football

*Irish League::Winners: Linfield

*Irish Cup::Winners: Glentoran 1 - 0 Larne

Motorcycling

*Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc, 350cc and 1000cc races at the Cookstown 100 to be named "“Man of the Meeting”".

Births

*2 January - Daryl Fordyce, soccer player.
*2 March - Jonathan Rea, motorcycle racer.
*29 August - Tony Kane, soccer player.
*16 September - Kyle Lafferty, international soccer player.
*17 September - Greg Thompson, cricketer.
*6 October - Michael O'Connor, soccer player.
*25 October - Darron Gibson, soccer player.

Deaths

*27 April - Maurice Gibson, judge (b.1913).
*7 May - Colin Blakely, actor (b.1930).
*8 May - Patrick Joseph Kelly, Commander of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, killed by Special Air Service at Loughgall (b.1957).
*22 June - John Harold Hewitt, poet (b.1907).
*3 December - George Seawright, Loyalist politician.
*22 December - John McMichael, leading Ulster Defence Association member, killed in car bomb attack.

Full date unknown

*Jimmy Warnock, boxer (b.1912).