Events
- January 20 - Labour ministers resign from the government over a disagreement over budget proposals.
- February 19 - A general election returns a Fianna Fáil minority government with Charles Haughey as Taoiseach.
- March 11 - Former Taoiseach Dr. Garret FitzGerald resigns the leadership of Fine Gael. He is succeeded by Alan Dukes.
- March 22 - The Irish National Lottery is launched.
- March 28 - The National Lottery launches its first scratch cards.
- May 8 - The British SAS kills eight IRA members and a civilian in an ambush at Loughgall, County Tyrone.
- May 9 - Johnny Logan wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with his own composition Hold Me Now, making him the only person to have won the competition twice as a performer.
- May 26 - Voters go to the poll in the referendum on the Single European Act. Nearly 70% vote in favour of the 10th amendment to the constitution.
- July 26 - Stephen Roche wins the Tour de France.
- November 8 - Remembrance Day bombing: Eleven civilians are killed by an IRA bomb during a Remembrance Day service in Enniskillen.
- November 10 - The funeral takes place in Dublin of the broadcaster Eamonn Andrews.
- November 29 - Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, opens to patients.
- December 5 - Downpatrick & Ardglass Railway begins public operation, the first Irish gauge heritage railway in Ireland.
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