8 April – Jennifer Guinness was kidnapped by three armed men for a IR£2 million ransom. She was the wife of banker, John Guinness, of the Guinness brewing family. She was rescued after eight days by gardaí (police) in Ballsbridge, Dublin.[2]
7 August – The deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and member of the British parliament, Peter Robinson, was arrested and charged with illegal assembly, after a loyalist mob took over a village in County Monaghan.
25–6 August – The remnants of Hurricane Charley struck Ireland. Dublin suffered its worst flooding since records began in 1880, and a new record for the greatest rainfall in one day was set when 200millimetres of rain was measured at Kilcoole in County Wicklow. The River Dodder and River Dargle in County Dublin overflowed leading to flooding of 416 houses and 35 commercial premises.[3]
October
23 October – Thirteen-year-old Philip Cairns disappeared on his way back to school after lunch.
December (date unknown) – The Government banned South African food imports, about half the total of South African imports into Ireland, in protest against apartheid.[4]
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