Born in 1986

A selection from Wikipedia's '1986 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 17 January – A centre lifting span of the Rice Bridge at Waterford collapsed into the River Suir during installation; however, the bridge was fully completed in the Spring.
• 11 February – Ireland's new association football team manager, Jack Charlton, arrived in Dublin.
• 18 March – Irish citizenship was conferred on Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Tip O'Neill, for inspiring constitutional nationalists to launch an initiative for a new Ireland.
• 4 May – Radiation from the devastated Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine reached Ireland.
• 26 June – Divorce referendum: A referendum was held to change the Constitution to allow divorce in Ireland. Voters rejected the proposal by 63% to 37%. This decision was later overturned in the 1995 referendum.
• 7 August – Clontibret invasion: A large gang of Northern Irish Loyalists crossed the Irish border overnight and attacked the village of Clontibret in County Monaghan. They assaulted and injured police and damaged property to protest against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, signed the previous November.
• 25–6 August – The remnants of Hurricane Charley struck Ireland. Dublin suffered its worst flooding since records began in 1880, and a new record for the greatest rainfall in one day was set when 200 millimetres of rain was measured at Kilcoole in County Wicklow.
• 13 October – Unleaded petrol goes on sale for new cars.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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