Events
Arts and literature
Sport
Gaelic games
Golf
Rugby Union
Soccer
- The League of Ireland moves from a predominatly winter season to a Scandinavian style summer season. Bohemians win the transitional 2002/03 season and Shelbourne win the 2003 championship.
Births
Deaths
January to June
- 8 January - Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, peer and public servant (b.1930).
- 21 January - Tony O'Malley, painter (b.1913).
- 23 January - Aodhagán Brioscú, last surviving founder of Irish cultural organisation Gael Linn.
- 16 February - Seán Ó Cionnaith, Workers Party of Ireland politician (b.1938).
- 25 February - Tom O'Higgins, barrister and judge, Irish Chief Justice, Fine Gael TD and twice defeated Irish presidential candidate (b.1916).
- 11 March - Brian Cleeve, writer and television broadcaster (b.1921).
- 17 March - Linda Kavanagh, Workers' Party activist and Dublin City Council member.
- 2 April - Pat Leavy, actress.
- 6 April - Ian Malone, member of British Army's Irish Guards, shot dead in Iraq (b.1974).
- 28 May - James Plunkett, novelist, author of Strumpet City. (b.1920).
- 30 June - Constance Smith, actress (b.1928).
July to September
- 16 July - James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the 1970 Arms Trial (b.1929).
- 17 July - Eamonn Leahy, barrister and husband of Cabinet Minister Mary Hanafin.
- 28 July - Valerie Goulding, former Senator and campaigner for the disabled (b.1918).
- 3 August - Phil Monahan, founder of Monarch Properties Holdings Limited, leaving an estate worth €26.7 million.
- 12 August - Kieran Kelly, jump jockey after a racing accident (b.1978).
- 14 August - Donal Lamont, former Catholic Bishop in Rhodesia (b.1911).
- 19 August - Dennis Flynn, soldier in Canada, Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (b.1923).
- 20 September - Liam Tobin, longtime Árd Rúnaí Roinn na Gaeltachta and Irish language campaigner.
- 24 September - Tomás MacGabhann, Trade Unionist and Irish language activist..
- 28 September - Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, journalist, broadcaster, chairman Bord na Gaeilge, president Conradh na Gaeilge (b.1933).
October to December
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