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February 15 - A 600 lb bomb explodes in Dungannon.
April 24 - The ESB announces that Carnsore
Point on the Wexford coast
will be the site of its nuclear power station.
May 8 - The great hall of University College Dublin is
to become a 900-seat concert hall and home of the RTÉ Symphony
Orchestra.
May 14 - Northern Ireland grinds to a halt as
the Ulster Workers' Council calls a strike following the defeat of
an anti-Sunningdale Agreement
motion.
May 17 - 31 people die and 150 are injured in four car bomb
explosions in Dublin and Monaghan by loyalists. They
are widely suspected of receiving technical assistance from British security
forces.