The Taoiseach, Garret Fitzgerald, hosted a lunch in his honour at Iveagh House, and a banquet was held in Dublin Castle. Mugabe met Bishop Donal Lamont at Maynooth College on 9 September. 8 September – The referendum on the constitutional amendment in relation to abortion was carried by a two-to-one majority. This created equal constitutional recognition of the right to life of a pregnant woman and of her embryo or foetus. 16 September – The Government banned the Soviet airline, Aeroflot, from landing at Shannon Airport at the request of the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, following the shooting down by the Soviet Union of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 with the loss of all 269 passengers and crew. 20 September – Leading politicians paid tribute to former Tánaiste George Colley (who died in a London hospital) as he was buried. 25 September – Maze Prison escape: 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners with arms escaped from HM Prison Maze in County Antrim. 1 October – The Concorde supersonic airliner paid its first visit to Dublin Airport. The landing of the Air France plane was watched by a large crowd from the observation deck on the roof of the terminal building. The flight came to bring passengers to Paris to see a horse race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. 5 October – The first stretch of motorway in the Republic of Ireland was opened – the eight-kilometre Naas bypass on the N7 national primary route. 25 November – Quinnsworth supermarket executive Don Tidey was kidnapped outside his home in Dublin by the Provisional IRA. 3 December – President Patrick Hillery was elected unopposed to his second and final seven-year term of office. 16 December – Don Tidey was rescued in County Leitrim. A soldier, Private Patrick Kelly, and Garda recruit, Gary Sheehan, were killed by the Provisional IRA during the rescue. Arts and literature 10 July – The Lark in the Park concert in Saint Anne's Park in Raheny featured performers the Rhythm Kings, Some Kind of Wonderful, and The Blades. 14 August – a concert was held at the Phoenix Park Racecourse in Dublin headlined by U2 and supported by Big Country, Eurythmics, Perfect Crime, Simple Minds, and Steel Pulse. August – Dorothy Nelson was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her novel In Night's City. 29 September – Tom Murphy's play The Gigli