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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.
6.1 Full date unknown. 7 See also. 8 References. Toggle the table of contents. 1982 in Ireland. 2 languages. ... 1982 in Northern Ireland Other events of 1982
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 ...
Daniel Wiffen has become the first athlete from Northern Ireland to win an Olympic gold medal in 36 years in the 800m freestyle in Paris.
Claims of state sponsored murder in Ireland; Article on police shootings in the UK "The Stalker Affair" by Paul Lashmar (Violations of Rights in Britain Series 3 No.27) Shoot to Kill, The Stalker and Stevens Inquiries "Murder on the Rock" by Maxine Williams. Article includes a list of suspected shoot-to-kill victims between 1982 and 1986.
Earlier in the day the English football team played a match against Northern Ireland in the stadium and an INLA statement warned there would be further such attacks. Several high-profile sporting events were cancelled as a result. [373] [374] March: Sinn Féin alleged that the INLA were responsible for the kidnapping of a publican's daughter in ...
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]
Three RUC officers were killed in an PIRA land mine attack on their patrol car near Oxford Island, near Lurgan, County Armagh. [94] 11 November Three unarmed IRA members were shot dead by members of an undercover RUC unit. Three more unarmed Republican suspects were killed by the RUC in disputed circumstances before the year ended. [94] 6 December