- 1989 in Ireland
Events
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January 2 -Dundalk ,County Louth celebrates its 1200 year heritage.
*February 12 -Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is shot dead by loyalists,
*March 21 - Three Irish soldiers onUnited Nations duty are killed in a landmine explosion in southernLebanon .
*April 3 -Belfast -bornAlex Higgins beatsStephen Hendry to win the BritishBenson and Hedges snooker championship.
*April 4 - The Windmill Lane Consortium says that if it gets the franchise it will be on the air within 9 to 12 months with its station TV3.
*June 16 -Ray McAnally , one of the country's most versatile actors, dies suddenly.
*June 22 - an order is signed creating theUniversity of Limerick , the first university founded since the foundation of the state, later in the dayDublin City University is created
*June 29 -Charles Haughey resigns asTaoiseach . He remains on in a caretaker capacity.
*August 19 - 10,000 people march fromDublin city centre to theBritish Embassy calling for British withdrawal fromNorthern Ireland .
*September 4 -Century Radio goes on the air for the first time.
*October 19 - Three of theGuildford Four are released inLondon .Paul Hill is immediately re-arrested.
*December 21 -Aer Rianta 's 5,000,000th passenger is presented with a holiday toFlorida .Arts and literature
port
Golf
*Carroll's Irish Open is won by
Ian Woosnam (Wales ).Gaelic football
*The
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final ends on a scoreline ofCork GAA 0–17Mayo GAA 1–11Hurling
*The
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final ends on a scoreline ofTipperary GAA 4-24Antrim GAA 3-9.occer
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11 October - The Republic of Ireland beat Northern Ireland 3–0 in a World Cup Qualifier atLansdowne Road .
*15 November - The Republic of Ireland win 2-0 in Malta to secure qualification for the World Cup for the first time.Births
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8 January -Ian Bermingham , soccer player.
*12 February -Cian Byrne , soccer player.
*24 February -Noel Haverty , soccer player.
*3 March -Barry O'Rorke , Gaelic footballer and hurler.
*9 June -Chloë Agnew , singer.
*2 July -Omero Mumba , actor.
*5 August -Eoin Bishop , comedian and Leinster rugby player.Deaths
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24 January - Michael Scott, architect (b.1905).
*January -Jackie Wright , comedian (b.1905).
*11 March -Simon Curley , cricketer (b.1917).
*7 April -Frank Cluskey , former leader of the Labour Party (b.1930).
*15 June -Ray McAnally , actor (b.1926).
*July -Eddie Gannon , soccer player (b.1921).
*3 August -Dominic Behan , songwriter, novelist and playwright (b.1928).
*10 August -H. Montgomery Hyde ,barrister , author andUlster Unionist MP (b.1907).
*12 September -Seamus Twomey , twice chief of staff of theProvisional Irish Republican Army (b.1919).
*4 November -Vivian Mercier , literary critic (b.1919).
*14 December -Gerry Healy , BritishTrotskyist leader (b.1913).
*22 December -Samuel Beckett ,Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 , playwright, novelist and poet (b.1906).Full date unknown
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Hugh Baker , cricketer (b.1906).
*Peadar Livingstone , priest and historian (b.1930).
*Dónall Mac Amhlaigh , writer (b.1926).
*John Mackey, Limerick hurler (b.1914).
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