Events from the year 1992 in Ireland. Incumbents President: Mary Robinson Taoiseach: Charles Haughey (FF) (until 11 February 1992) Albert Reynolds (FF) (from 11 February 1992) Tánaiste: John Wilson (FF) Minister for Finance: Bertie Ahern (FF) Chief Justice: Thomas Finlay Dáil: 26th (until 5 November 1992) 27th (from 14 December 1992) Seanad: 19th (until 17 December 1992) Events 20 January – Peter Brooke offered to resign as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland following criticism of his singing on The Late Late Show only hours after an Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded. 30 January – Charles Haughey resigned as Taoiseach and as leader of the Fianna Fáil party. 31 January – The Government sold the B+I Shipping Line to the Irish Continental Group. 4 February Mary Robinson became the first President of Ireland to visit Belfast. An off-duty Royal Ulster Constabulary officer in Belfast killed three people in a Sinn Féin office before committing suicide. 5 February – Loyalist gunmen killed five Catholics in an attack on a bookmaker's shop in Belfast. 6 February – Albert Reynolds was elected the fifth leader of Fianna Fáil. 11 February – Charles Haughey resigned as Taoiseach and was succeeded by Albert Reynolds. 18 February – Albert Reynolds discussed the situation with other party leaders as the High Court prevented a 14-year-old rape victim from going to Britain for an abortion. 26 February – The Supreme Court lifted the High Court ruling preventing a girl from travelling to Britain for an abortion; it was duly performed. 15 March – Proinsias De Rossa led a breakaway group from the Workers' Party to form what would shortly become Democratic Left. The majority of the breakaway group including De Rossa joined the Labour Party in 1999. 13 April – Two hundred and fifty years after the first performance of Handel's Messiah in Dublin, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields performed the oratorio at the Point Theatre. 7 May – Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway resigned following the revelation that he was the father of a teenage boy. 8 May – The third People In Need Telethon was held. 9 May – Linda Martin won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with Why Me?. This was the first of three consecutive Irish wins. 31 May – Christy O'Connor Jnr won the British Masters golf tournament. 18 June – A referendum approved the Maastricht Treaty on