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6 April - James Prior launches 'rolling devolution' for Northern Ireland. April 1982 the Thatcher government published its White Paper on Northern Ireland. [2] 10 May - Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) is appointed to Seanad Éireann. 20 October - Polling takes place in the Northern Ireland Assembly election.
27 October 1982 – Seán Quinn (37), a Catholic, Alan McCloy (34) and Paul Hamilton (26), both Protestants, all members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their armoured patrol car at Oxford Island, near Lurgan. 11 November 1982 - Eugene Toman (21), Sean Burns (21) and ...
24 November 1982: The killing, by an RUC undercover unit, of Michael Tighe and the wounding of his friend Martin McCauley at an IRA arms cache on a farm near Lurgan, County Armagh. (19 years later, McCauley was arrested in Colombia, accused by the Colombian authorities of teaching FARC guerillas in the use of explosives, in particular the ...
Middle Row, Lurgan, in the late 19th century Birds-eye view of Lurgan in the early 20th century Edward Street, Lurgan, in the early 20th century. The name Lurgan is an anglicisation of the Irish name An Lorgain, literally meaning "the shin", but within the context of placenames refers to a "shin"-shaped hill or ridge (i.e., long, low and narrow).
John Bruton (until 9 March 1982) Ray MacSharry (from 9 March 1982 until 14 December 1982) Alan Dukes (from 14 December 1982) Chief Justice: Tom O'Higgins; Dáil: 22nd (until 27 January 1982) 23rd (from 9 March 1982 until 4 November 1982) 24th (from 14 December 1982) Seanad: 15th (until 16 April 1982) 16th (from 13 May 1982 until 21 December 1982)
The Lurgan Park Rally was an annual rally event held in Lurgan Park in Lurgan, Northern Ireland from 1980 to 2016. [1] [2] In 2010, the rally was given a new logo and another new logo was released for the 2012 rally. The Rally also held the Escort Mk2 Challenge. [3] It was the largest single rally venue on the island of Ireland.
10 September: The IRA shot dead a man (David McVeigh) in Lurgan. The IRA claimed he had been a member of their organisation but had become an informer in 1982 after he was arrested in connection with the bombing of Lurgan Golf Club. [156] 11 September: the IRA launched a gun and rocket attack on RUC headquarters on the Strand Road in Derry. [158]
The Shankill Butchers were an Ulster loyalist paramilitary serial killer gang – many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) – that was active between 1975 and 1982 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was based in the Shankill area and was responsible for the deaths of at least 23 people, most of whom were killed in sectarian ...