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.
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