1982 in Ireland

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Events

• January 21 - Kildare TD, Charlie McCreevy, is expelled from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party for criticising Charles Haughey.
• February 1 - Corporal punishment is banned in schools in the Republic.
• March 12 - The country's first crematorium is officially opened at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
• April 6 - James Prior launches 'rolling devolution' for Northern Ireland.
• April 28 - Work begins on the Cork-Dublin natural gas pipeline.
• May 2 - The Irish Government affirms its neutrality in the Falklands conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina, and opposes European Economic Community sanctions against Argentina (as does Italy).
• May 10 - Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party is appointed to Seanad Éireann.
• May 24 - 20,000 people across the country march in protest at income tax and PRSI changes.
• June 16 - RTÉ Radio transmits uninterrupted, unabridged, 30 hour dramatised performance of Joyce's novel, Ulysses.
• July 20 - The Irish Republican Army kills ten servicemen in bomb attacks in Hyde Park and Regent's Park, London.
• August 16 - The Attorney General Patrick Connolly resigns after a wanted double-murderer is found staying on his property; the ensuing scandal is later described as being "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented" by Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
• September 14 - Ireland mourns the death of Princess Grace of Monaco.
• October 6 - Taoiseach Charles Haughey emerges with a majority of 58 votes to 22 in an open ballot on Charlie McCreevy's motion of no confidence in his leadership.
• October 15 - Cork Airport celebrates its 21st birthday. The airport has yet to make a profit.
• October 20 - Polling takes place in the Assembly elections in Northern Ireland.
• November 2 - Former leader of the Labour Party, Michael O'Leary, joins the Fine Gael Party.
• November 4 - The government loses a confidence motion in the Dáil by 82 votes to 80. President Hillery dissolves the Twenty-Third Dáil.
• December 1 - Dublin's Grafton Street officially opens as a pedestrianised street.
• December 3 - Patrick Hillery is installed as President of Ireland for a second term.
• December 6 - Ballykelly disco bombing: The Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen people in a bomb attack at the Droppin Well Inn, Ballykelly, County Londonderry.
• Rice Bridge replaces Redmond Bridge in Waterford City.

Arts and literature

• Maeve Binchy's novel Light a Penny Candle is published.
• Frank McGuinness's first play, Factory Girls, is produced at the Peacock, Dublin.
• Graham Reid's play The Hidden Curriculum is produced.

Sport

Gaelic football

• Kerry GAA are denied a fifth consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title by Offaly GAA in a famous final.

Golf

• Carroll's Irish Open is won by John O'Leary (Ireland).

Hurling

• Kilkenny GAA win the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Rugby

• The Ireland rugby team wins the Triple Crown Ireland for the first time since 1949 by beating Scotland 21-12 on 21 February, having already beaten Wales and England.

Soccer

• The Republic of Ireland did not qualify for the 1982 world cup.

Births

January to June

• 22 January - Alan McDermott, soccer player.
• 30 January - Gary O'Neill, soccer player.
• 10 February - Keith Dunne, soccer player.
• 11 February - John Melligan, soccer player.
• 6 March - J. J. Delaney, Kilkenny hurler.
• 4 April - Robbie Hedderman, soccer player.
• 6 April - Phil Byrne, soccer player.
• 27 April - Cliff Byrne, soccer player.
• 27 April - Stephen O'Flynn, soccer player.
• 10 May - Alan Keely, soccer player.
• 28 May - Wes Hoolahan, soccer player.
• 19 June - Jackie Tyrrell, Kilkenny hurler.

July to December

• 17 July - Austin O'Neill, soccer player.
• 20 July - Aidan Fogarty, Kilkenny hurler.
• 26 July - Declan Field, soccer player.
• 27 July - Robert Martin, soccer player.
• 29 July - Andy Reid, soccer player.
• 31 July - Alan O'Hare, soccer player.
• 1 August - Anthony Murphy, soccer player.
• 5 August - John Lester, soccer player.
• 12 August - Glen Barry, actor.
• 10 September - Andrew Murray, boxer.
• 15 September - Alan McNally, soccer player.
• 20 October - Ciaran Quinn, soccer player.

Full date unknown

• Graham Callinan, Cork hurler.
• Sarah Flannery, winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition.
• Peter Lawlor, Limerick hurler.
• James Masters, Cork Gaelic footballer.
• Niall McCarthy, Cork hurler.
• Kevin McMahon, Cork Gaelic footballer.
• Niall Moran, Limerick hurler.
• Brian Murphy, Cork hurler.
• Noel O'Leary, Cork Gaelic footballer.
• Damian Reale, Limerick hurler.
• Pat Tobin, Limerick hurler.

Deaths

• 1 January - Michael Hilliard, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (b.1903).
• 16 January - Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, cricketer, squash player and art collector (b.1909).
• 5 February - George Crothers, cricketer (b.1909).
• 16 February - Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North–West (b.1910).
• 18 March - Patrick Smith, TD and Cabinet Minister (b.1901).
• 26 March - Sam Kydd, actor (b.1915).
• 15 June - Johnny Callanan, Fianna Fáil TD (b.1910).
• 7 July - Charles Hill, cricketer (b.1903).
• 24 August - Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, poet and writer (b.1919).
• 13 September - Mick Mackey, Limerick hurler and first recipient of the GAA All-Time All-Star Award (Hurling) (b.1912).
• 5 October - Séamus Ennis, Uilleann piper, singer and folk-song collector (b.1919).
• 18 November - Hilton Edwards, actor, director, co-founder of Gate Theatre (b.1903).

Full date unknown

• Con Cottrell, Cork hurler (b.1917).
• Barbara Fitzgerald
• Pamela Hinkson
• Mick Kennefick, Cork hurler (b.1924).
• Temple Lane
• Caitlín Maude, poet, actress and traditional singer (b.1941).
• Brian O'Kelly