1992 in Ireland - Events

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.
  • January 30 - Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach and as leader of Fianna Fáil.
  • January 31 - The Irish government sells the British and Irish Steam Packet Company (B+I Line) to the Irish Continental Group.
  • February 4
    • Mary Robinson becomes the first President of Ireland to visit Belfast.
    • 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.
  • February 6 - Albert Reynolds is elected the fifth leader of Fianna Fáil.
  • February 11 - Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach. Albert Reynolds collects his seal of office as his successor.
  • February 18 - Taoiseach Albert Reynolds discusses the situation with other party leaders as the High Court prevents a 14-year-old rape victim from going to Britain for an abortion.
  • February 26 - The Supreme Court lift the High Court ruling preventing a 14-year-old girl from going to Britain for an abortion; the abortion is performed in England.
  • March 15 - Proinsias De Rossa leads a breakaway group from the Workers' Party to form what would shortly become Democratic Left. The majority of the breakaway group including De Rossa would later join the Irish Labour Party.
  • April 13 – 250 years after the first performance of Handel's Messiah in Dublin, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performs the oratario at the Point Theatre.
  • May 7 - Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway resigns following the revelation that he is the father of a teenage boy.
  • May 9 - Linda Martin wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with Why Me?, composed by previous winner Johnny Logan.
  • May 31 - Christy O'Connor Jnr wins the British Masters golf tournament.
  • June 18 - A referendum in the Republic approves the Maastricht Treaty on European Union: 69.1% in favour; 30.9% against.
  • July 8 - President Mary Robinson addresses both houses of the Oireachtas.
  • September 23 - The IRA destroys Belfast's forensic science laboratory with a huge bomb.
  • November 5 - The government loses a confidence motion and the Dáil is dissolved. Two former Taoisigh, Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald, announce their retirement from politics.
  • November 25 - Three referendums are held in the Republic on abortion-related issues: the right to travel and the right to (abortion-related) information is supported.
  • December 31 - Unemployment reaches record levels: 290,000 people are out of work.

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