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1987 in Northern Ireland

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Events during the year 1987 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

  • Secretary of State - Tom King

Events

  • 8 May - Loughgall ambush: The British Army Special Air Service (SAS) kills 8 Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members and a civilian in an ambush at Loughgall.
  • 3 July - Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand become the first people to complete a transatlantic flight in a hot air balloon aboard the balloon Virgin Atlantic Flyer, first touching down in Northern Ireland.
  • 8 November - Remembrance Day bombing: 11 civilians are killed in an IRA explosion during a Remembrance Day service in Enniskillen.
  • 5 December - Downpatrick & Ardglass Railway begins public operation, the first Irish gauge heritage railway in Ireland.

Arts and literature

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

Sport

Football

  • Irish League ::Winners: Linfield

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

  • Warrenpoint Town F.C. formed.

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, footballer.
  • 21 February - Carl Frampton, boxer.
  • 2 March - Jonathan Rea, motorcycle racer.
  • 4 July - Jason Smyth, paralympian sprinter.
  • 29 August - Tony Kane, footballer.
  • 16 September - Kyle Lafferty, international soccer player.
  • 17 September - Greg Thompson, cricketer.
  • 6 October - Michael O'Connor, footballer.
  • 25 October - Darron Gibson, footballer.

Deaths

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

Full date unknown

  • Alan Barnes, architect.
  • Jimmy Warnock, boxer (born 1912).

References

References

  1. (2012-07-03). "Today in History". [[Express (Washington, D.C. newspaper).
  2. (1987-07-05). "Balloon crosses Atlantic". [[Pittsburgh Press]].
  3. Cochrane, Gerry. (2009). "Back in Steam: the Downpatrick and County Down Railway from 1982". Colourpoint.
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