Born in 1985

The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher — giving the Irish Republic a consultative role in the affairs of Northern Ireland for the first time. It was a significant political development, though it enraged unionists and was rejected by republicans as insufficient. In the south, people were still emigrating in large numbers.

The phrase 'brain drain' was coined to describe what was happening to Ireland's educated young people.