1987 in Northern Ireland

Events during the year 1987 in Northern Ireland.

Incumbents

8 May - Loughgall ambush: The British Army Special Air Service (SAS) kills 8 Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members and a civilian in an ambush at Loughgall.
3 July - Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand become the first people to complete a transatlantic flight in a hot air balloon aboard the balloon Virgin Atlantic Flyer, first touching down in Northern Ireland.
8 November - Remembrance Day bombing: 11 civilians are killed in an IRA explosion during a Remembrance Day service in Enniskillen.
5 December - Downpatrick & Ardglass Railway begins public operation, the first Irish gauge heritage railway in Ireland.

CiarÃÂ¡n Carson's The Irish for No poetry collection is published and wins the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.

:Winners: Linfield

:Winners: Glentoran 1 - 0 Larne

Robert Dunlop wins the 125cc, 350cc and 1000cc races at the Cookstown 100 to be named Ã¢ÂÂMan of the MeetingÃ¢ÂÂ.

27 April - Maurice Gibson, judge (born 1913).
7 May - Colin Blakely, actor (born 1930).
8 May - Patrick Joseph Kelly, Commander of the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade, killed by Special Air Service at Loughgall (born 1957).
22 June - John Hewitt, poet (born 1907).
3 December - George Seawright, Loyalist politician.
22 December - John McMichael, leading Ulster Defence Association member, killed in car bomb attack.