30 March - Airey Neave, Conservative Party Spokesman on Northern Ireland, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) booby trap bomb attached to his car at the House of Commons, London.
In 2012 he drew criticism from Unionists including Jim Allister after carrying the coffin at the paramilitary funeral of a former INLA member in Derry.A masked Real IRA gunman fired a volley of shots over the coffin,although Eastwood stated he was not present at the time of the gunfire.
10 December : The INLA, along with its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) was founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin