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Events from the year1987 in Ireland.

• President:Patrick Hillery
• Taoiseach:
  • Garret FitzGerald (FG) (until 10 March 1987)
  • Charles Haughey (FF) (from 10 March 1987)
• Tánaiste:
  • Dick Spring (Lab) (until 20 January 1987)
  • Peter Barry (FG) (from 20 January 1987 until 10 March 1987)
  • Brian Lenihan (FF) (from 10 March 1987)
• Minister for Finance:
  • John Bruton (FG) (until 10 March 1987)
  • Ray MacSharry (FF) (from 10 March 1987)
• Chief Justice:Thomas Finlay
• Dáil:
  • 24th (until 20 January 1987)
  • 25th (from 10 March 1987)
• Seanad:
  • 17th (until 3 April 1987)
  • 18th (from 25 April 1987)

• 1 January – Thehalfpenny coin was withdrawn from circulation.
• 20 January –Labour Party ministers resigned from the government because of disagreement over budget proposals.

• 19 February – Ageneral election returned aFianna Fáil minority government after theFine Gael–Labour Party coalition collapsed.Charles Haughey becametaoiseach by one Dáil vote. The newProgressive Democrats party won 14 seats.

• 11 March – Former taoiseachGarret FitzGerald resigned as leader of the Fine Gael party and was succeeded byAlan Dukes.
• 22 March – TheIrish National Lottery was launched.

• 8 May –Loughgall ambush: The BritishSpecial Air Service killed eightProvisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members and a civilian inLoughgall, County Tyrone.
• 9 May –Johnny Logan won theEurovision Song Contest for Ireland with his own compositionHold Me Now, making him the only person to win the competition twice as a performer.
• 26 May – A referendum was held on theSingle European Act. Nearly 70% voted in favour of thetenth amendment to the Constitution.

• 26 July –Stephen Roche won theTour de France, the first Irish cyclist to do so.

• 6 September -Stephen Roche completed theTriple Crown of Cycling by winning theUCI Road World Championships.

• 8 November –Remembrance Day bombing: Eleven people were killed and 63 were injured by an IRA bomb during aRemembrance Day service inEnniskillen.
• 10 November – The funeral took place of broadcasterEamonn Andrews.
• 29 November –Beaumont Hospital opened in Dublin.

• 5 December –Downpatrick and Ardglass Railway began public operation, the firstIrish gaugeheritage railway in Ireland.^[1]
• Undated –Cooley Distillery began producingIrish whiskey.

• U2 releasedThe Joshua Tree album^[2] to international acclaim.
• Maeve Binchy's novelFirefly Summer was published.
• Roddy Doyle published his first novel,The Commitments, the first volume ofThe Barrytown Trilogy, about a group of unemployed young people on the north side of Dublin who start a soul band.
• Kíla, thefolk/world music group, was formed in theIrish language secondary school,Coláiste Eoin inCounty Dublin.

• 11 November –Ireland qualified for their first major international tournament when Scotland pulled off a shock 1–0 win inSofia against Bulgaria.Gary Mackay scored the only goal with just three minutes left to put Ireland into theEuro 88 tournament in West Germany.

• 6 September – CyclistStephen Roche completed a remarkable treble by winning theGiro d'Italia, theTour de France, and theWorld Championship.

• Meath defeatedCork by 1–14 to 0–11 to win theAll-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

• TheCarroll's Irish Open golf tournament was won byBernhard Langer (West Germany).

• Galway defeatedKilkenny by 1–12 to 0–9 to win theAll-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship.

• 2 January –Cathal Naughton,Cork hurler.
• 9 January –Nicola Coughlan, actress
• 22 January –Shane Long, association footballer.
• 24 January –Ruth Bradley, television actress.
• 30 January –Becky Lynch, professional wrestler.
• 4 February –Darren O'Dea, association footballer.
• 5 February –Denis McLaughlin, association footballer.
• 14 February –James Chambers, association footballer.
• 16 March –Diarmuid O'Carroll, association footballer.
• 2 April –Shane Lowry, golfer
• 13 April –Conor Sammon, association footballer.
• 23 April –Kelly Gough, actress.
• 12 May –Darren Randolph, association footballer.
• 20 May –Pa Cronin,Cork hurler.
• 21 May –Chris McCann, association footballer.
• 7 July –Diarmuid Connolly,DublinGaelic football andhurling player.
• 9 July –Jonny Hayes, association footballer.
• 28 September –Gary Deegan, association footballer.
• 2 June –Graeme Mulcahy, hurler (Kilmallock,Limerick).
• 2 October –Séamus Hickey, hurler (Murroe-Boher,Limerick).
• 11 October –Richie McCarthy, hurler (Blackrock,Limerick).
• 16 October –Eric McGill, association footballer.
• 9 November –Tom Condon, hurler (Limerick).
• 14 November –Brian Gleeson, actor
• 16 November –T. J. Reid,Kilkenny hurler.
• 13 December –Billy Clarke, association footballer.

• 2 January –Roger McHugh, professor, author and playwright (born 1908).
• 4 January –Eudie Coughlan,Cork hurler (born 1900).
• 14 January –Ewart Milne, poet (born 1903).
• January –Billy King, cricketer (born 1902).
• 8 April –Kevin McNamara, Archbishop of Dublin (born 1926).
• 19 April –Con Cremin, diplomat (born 1908).
• 22 April –Bill Hayes, association footballer (born 1915).
• 23 April –Oliver J. Flanagan,Fine Gaelteachta dála (TD) and cabinet minister (born 1920).
• 27 April –Maurice Gibson, Northern Irish judge (born 1913).
• 8 May –Jim Lynagh,Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member killed in an ambush by the BritishSpecial Air Service during an IRA attack onLoughgall Royal Ulster Constabulary station (born 1956).
• 22 June –John Hewitt, poet (born 1907).
• 30 June –Tommy O'Connor, association footballer.
• 20 July –Denis J. O'Sullivan,Fine Gael TD (born 1918).
• 18 October –Michael Lipper,Labour Party TD (born 1932).
• 25 October –Ivan Beshoff, last survivor of the RussianPotemkin mutiny (born 1882/4 in the Russian Empire).
• 29 October –Monk Gibbon, poet and author (born 1896).
• 5 November –Eamonn Andrews, broadcaster (born 1922).
• 25 November –James McDyer, Roman Catholic priest and community leader (born 1910).
• 8 December –Peadar Livingstone, priest and historian (born 1930).
• 9 December –Seán Brosnahan, Treasurer Irish National Teachers Organisation, member of theSeanad from 1961 to 1977 (born 1911).

• Jimmy Warnock, boxer (born 1912).

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