Events from the year 1993 in Ireland. Incumbents President: Mary Robinson Taoiseach: Albert Reynolds (FF) Tánaiste: John Wilson (FF) (until 12 January 1993) Dick Spring (Lab) (from 12 January 1993) Minister for Finance: Bertie Ahern (FF) Chief Justice: Thomas Finlay Dáil: 27th Seanad: 20th (from 17 February 1993) Events 8–17 January – The Braer Storm blew in the North Atlantic. 12 January – Albert Reynolds was elected Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann. A Fianna Fáil–Labour Party coalition government came to power. 10 March – The Gaelic Athletic Association received planning permission for the redevelopment of the Croke Park stadium. 25 March – Castlerock killings: four Catholics were shot dead by the Ulster Defence Association as they arrived for work in Castlerock, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. 27 May – The first meeting of an Irish head of state with a British monarch took place when President Mary Robinson makes a private visit to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. 1 June – Mother Teresa met President Mary Robinson at Áras an Uachtaráin. 24 June – Dáil Éireann passed the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, decriminalising consensual homosexual acts. 15 July – The Beef Tribunal ended after 226 days. September – The sale of land beside a Dublin convent and the consequent exhumation of at least 133 former residents of a Magdalene asylum from unmarked graves brought the existence of these institutions to wide public attention. 16 September – A new green coloured £10 note was issued depicting the writer James Joyce. 23 October – Shankill Road bombing – Ten people were killed when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded at a fish shop on the Shankill Road in Belfast. 30 October – Greysteel massacre – The Ulster Defence Association shot 21 people in the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, during a Hallowe'en party. They chose the pub as it was in a Catholic area. 12 November – The issue of a new, smaller 10 pence coin meant there was no longer a coin equivalent in size to a florin after 22 years. December – Brú na Bóinne became the first UNESCO World Heritage Site designated in Ireland. 15 December – Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and British Prime Minister John Major issued a joint Downing Street Declaration on the future of Northern Ireland. 25 December – Elizabeth II spoke of her hopes for peace in Northern Ireland in