Ireland

Total results: 2746

Liz McColgan won the World Athletics Championship, 10,000 metres in Tokyo by a margin of, 20 seconds.

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Liz McColgan won her first marathon in a record time.

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British Steel announced the closure of the hot strip mill at Ravenscraig

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Sandy Lyle becomes the first Scottish (and British) golfer to win the US Masters tournament.

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Ireland elects its first woman President Mary Robinson

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Barry McGuigan beats Eusebia Pedrosa to become the World Featherweight Champion

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Luke Kelly, lead vocalist and 5-string banjo member of the Dubliners, dies

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The Queen officially opened the Burrell Collection in Glasgows Pollok Country Park. The museums collection had been donated to the city nearly, 40 years earlier by the shipping magnate Sir William Burrell.

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