1990 in Ireland

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1 Events

Events

January 1 - The Northern Ireland Fair Employment Act becomes law.
April 3 - There is all-party support for the Government bill to abolish the death penalty for capital murder and replace it with lengthy prison sentences.
April 26 - The Labour Party selects Mary Robinson as its candidate in the presidential election.
June 20 - Circulation begins of the IR�1 coin as a replacement for the note of the same denomination.
July 2 - Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, addresses a joint session of both houses of the Oireachtas.
July 24 - The IRA kills three policemen and a nun in a bomb attack near Armagh.
August 24 - Brian Keenan is released after 1574 days in captivity in Beirut.
October 24 - The IRA kills 6 soldiers and a civilian in bomb attacks at Derry and Newry.
October 25 - Presidential candidate Brian Lenihan denies that he tried to contact President Hillery to stop the dissolution of the D�il in 1982. This is in spite of a taped interview where he confirms that he did.
October 31 - An T�naiste and Minister for Defence Brian Lenihan is sacked from the government over the telephone call controversy.
November 9 - Mary Robinson is elected the seventh President of Ireland.
December 3 - Mary Robinson is inaugurated as President of Ireland. Dr. Patrick Hillery bows out after 14 years as Head of State.

The Republic of Ireland football team team plays in the World Cup Finals for the first time.
June 11 - The Irish team draws 1-1 with England in the first game of the World Cup.
June 25 - The Republic of Ireland reach the quarter-finals in the championship.
June 30 - The Republic of Ireland team lose 1-0 to Italy.
Golf: Ireland (David Feherty, Ronan Rafferty, Philip Walton) win the Dunhill Cup.