Events
Arts and literature
Ireland hosts the Eurovision Song Contest
Sport
Cycling
Gaelic football
Hurling
Soccer
Golf
Births
- 15 January - Padraig Amond, soccer player.
- 23 January - Alan Power, soccer player.
- 29 January - Owen Garvan, soccer player.
- 21 February - Darren Forsyth, soccer player.
- 22 February - Robert Bayly, soccer player.
- 4 March - Timmy Purcell, soccer player.
- 2 May - Stephen Henderson, soccer player.
- 21 May - Adam Rooney, soccer player.
- 25 July - Anthony Stokes, soccer player.
- 14 September - Shane Tracy, soccer player.
- 22 September - Keith Quinn, soccer player.
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
- 1 January - Sister Philippa Brazill, nurse in Australia (b.1896).
- 1 January - Dan Spring, Gaelic footballer, trade unionist and Irish Labour Party TD (b.1910).
- 15 January - Seán MacBride, former Clann na Poblachta TD, Cabinet Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner (b.1904).
- 2 February - Frederick Blaney, cricketer (b.1918).
- 6 February - Paschal (PV) Doyle, hotelier and builder, founder Doyle Hotel Group.
- 24 February - Tommy O'Brien, journalist and broadcaster.
- 10 May - Ciaran Bourke, musician, one of the original members of the The Dubliners (b.1936).
July to December
Full date unknown
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