2 May – Aer Lingus Flight 164, a Boeing 737 en route from Dublin to London was hijacked and ordered to fly to Tehran. The flight was diverted to Paris and the hijacker, Laurence Downey, was arrested.
5 May – Bobby Sands died on the 66th day of his hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
12 May – Francis Hughes, previously the most wanted man in Northern Ireland, died on the 59th day of his hunger strike in the Maze Prison.
25 July – During a fire at Portlaoise Prison, Irish Army Private Thomas Metcalfe scaled a forty-foot (12m) high drainpipe in darkness and rescued a comrade trapped on a blazing rooftop. He later received the Military Medal for Gallantry.
5 December – Harry Flynn of the terrorist Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) survived a murder attempt in Dublin, ordered by the INLA leader Gerard Steenson. Flynn was in The Flowing Tidepub at the corner of Abbey Street and Marlborough Street in the city centre when a gunman entered and shot at Flynn, but his gun jammed and he fled. Flynn survived his wounds.[3]
19 December – Penlee lifeboat disaster: The Arklow-bound, Dublin-registered Union Star was lost on its maiden voyage off Cornwall. Sixteen lives were lost, eight from the Union Star and eight from RNLB Solomon Browne (ON 954) who died while attempting rescue.
27 December – Supporters of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children marched in Dublin to demand a referendum for an anti-abortion amendment to the Constitution.
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