Born in 1981

A selection from Wikipedia's '1981 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 1 March – Bobby Sands began a hunger strike in the Maze Prison (Long Kesh) near Lisburn (Northern Ireland).
• 5 March – A petrol strike ended when 800 tanker drivers resumed work.
• 10 April – Hunger striker Bobby Sands was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
• 11 June – 1981 Irish general election. Fianna Fáil lost seats and a Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition government was formed. Kieran Doherty, on hunger strike in the Maze Prison, was elected TD for Cavan–Monaghan.
• 30 June – Fine Gael leader Garret FitzGerald was elected taoiseach as the 22nd Dáil Éireann assembled.
• 25 July – During a fire at Portlaoise Prison, Irish Army Private Thomas Metcalfe scaled a forty-foot (12 m) high drainpipe in darkness and rescued a comrade trapped on a blazing rooftop. He later received the Military Medal for Gallantry.
• 11 September – The Irish Sugar Company announced that it was to close its factory in Tuam, County Galway.
• 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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