Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Athletics
Golf
Births
January to June
- 12 January - David Worrell, soccer player.
- 19 January - Simon Webb, soccer player.
- 28 January - Dave Mulcahy, soccer player.
- 30 January - John Doyle, Kildare Gaelic footballer.
- 21 February - Damien English, Fine Gael TD for Meath West.
- 23 February - Jason Byrne, soccer player.
- 9 March - Derek O'Connor, soccer player.
- 2 April - John Hoyne, Kilkenny hurler.
- 4 April - Alan Mahon, soccer player.
- 5 April - Stephen Murphy, soccer player.
- 19 April - Geordan Murphy, International rugby player.
- 29 April - David O'Loughlin, cyclist.
- 14 June - Alan Murphy, soccer player.
- 21 June - Wayne Sherlock, Cork hurler.
- 25 June - Kieran Kelly, jump jockey killed in a racing accident (d.2003).
July to September
- 4 July - Derek Lyng, Kilkenny hurler.
- 18 July - Shane Horgan, International rugby player.
- 27 July - Brian Barry-Murphy, soccer player.
- July - Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Cork hurler.
- 7 August - Alan Mahon, soccer player.
- 8 August - Alan Maybury, soccer player.
- 21 August - Alan Lee, soccer player.
- 28 August - Barry Ryan, soccer player.
- 29 August - Darren O'Keeffe, soccer player.
- 27 September - John Paul Phelan, Fine Gael Senator.
October to December
- 1 October - Barry Conlon, soccer player.
- 2 October - Eddie Brennan, Kilkenny hurler.
- 5 October - Shane Ryan, Gaelic footballer.
- 9 October - Nicky Byrne, entertainer, member Westlife.
- 17 October - Jerry Flannery, international rugby player.
- 25 October - Chris Keane, rugby player.
- 9 November - Martin Comerford, Kilkenny hurler.
- 15 December - Edele Barrett, singer and songwriter.
- 15 December - Keavy Lynch, singer and songwriter.
- 22 December - Eugene Cloonan, Galway hurler.
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 23 January Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (b.1902).
- 4 March - Emmet Dalton, revolutionary.
- 6 March - Micheál MacLiammóir, actor and dramatist (b.1899).
- 21 March - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-General, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland (d.1911).
- 5 July - Mary Swanzy, painter.
- 12 September - Wilfred Hutton, cricketer (b.1901).
- October - Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (b.1897).
- 5 November - Denis O'Dea, actor (b.1905).
- 13 December - Jack Doyle, boxer, actor and singer (b.1913).
Full date unknown
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