Events
- January 18 - The European Court of Human Rights finds Britain guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of republican internees in Northern Ireland.
- January 19 - The Fianna Fáil government dismisses the Garda Commissioner Edmund Garvey. No explanation is given.
- January 21 - Johnny Giles resigns as manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team.
- March 23 - The state funeral of former President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh takes place in Sneem, County Kerry.
- March 31 - 6,000 people march through Dublin to Wood Quay to protest against the building of civic offices on the Viking site.
- June 1 - David Cook of the Alliance Party becomes the first non-unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast.
- August 19 - Over 5,000 people take part in a nuclear rally against a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point, County Wexford.
- September 1 - Dublin Institute of Technology is created on an ad-hoc basis by the City of Dublin VEC.
- November 2 - Ireland's second national television channel, RTÉ 2, opens with a live broadcast from the Cork Opera House.
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