Ireland

Total results: 2737

In the opening game of their Rugby World Cup programme, Scotland defeated Ivory Coast, 89-0

ireland

Alison Hargreave, a, 33-year-old mother of two from Spean Bridge became the first woman to climb Mount Everest solo and without oxygen

ireland

Graham Obree, from Irvine in Ayrshire, broke the world record and became the world pursuit cycle champion over, 4,000 metres in Hamar, Norway.

ireland

Rt. Hon. John Smith, leader of the Labour Party died.

ireland

25 top intelligence officers and the crew of four were killed when a Chinook helicopter in which they were traveling from Northern Ireland crashed into a hillside on the Mull of Kintyre.

ireland

Pope John Paul sanctifies John Duns Scotus, philosopher, theologian (but the first dunce)

ireland

Final performance at the Grassmarket, Edinburgh premises of the Traverse Theatre

ireland

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

ireland