2000 in Ireland
The following lists events that happened during the year 2000 in Ireland.
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Incumbents
- President: Mary McAleese
- Taoiseach: Bertie Ahern (FF)
- Tánaiste: Mary Harney (PD)
- Minister for Finance: Charlie McCreevy (FF)
- Chief Justice:
- Liam Hamilton (until 1 June 2000)
- Ronan Keane (from 1 June 2000)
- Dáil: 28th
- Seanad: 21st
Events
February
- 3 February – John Gilligan's extradition from the UK to Ireland on drug trafficking and murder charges was completed.
- 11 February – the British government suspended devolution in Northern Ireland.
April
- 10 April
- The Dublin Area Rapid Transit system was extended southwards from Bray to Greystones and northwards from Howth Junction to Malahide.
- The ambulance service regulator, the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, was established.
- Spring – Clive Cussler's National Underwater and Marine Agency discovered the wreck of RMS Carpathia (sunk 1918) 120 mi (190 km) west of Fastnet Rock.[1]
May
- 6 May – the Provisional Irish Republican Army began decommissioning its weapons.
- 30 May – devolution returned to Northern Ireland.
July
December
- 12 December – President Bill Clinton of the United States arrived in Dublin beginning his last international trip as President and met with President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and gave a speech in Dundalk.[3]
- 13 December – Bill Clinton met with the political leaders of Northern Ireland.
- 31 December – Ireland celebrated as the 20th century drew to a close.
Arts and literature
- 7 February – the Chester Beatty Library opened in its new premises in the grounds of Dublin Castle.
- 31 October – boyband Westlife scored their seventh straight UK number one, becoming the only artists in UK chart history to achieve this.
- December – the quarterly cultural magazine The Dublin Review was launched by Brendan Barrington.
- John Banville's novel Eclipse was published.
- Anne Enright's novel What Are You Like? was published.
Sport
Association football
Shelbourne won the double of the League of Ireland Premier Division and the FAI Cup for the first time in their history. They then knocked out Macedonian side Sloga Jugomagnat in the first round of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers. Their 1–0 win in Skopje was the first away win in a European tie by a League of Ireland side for eighteen years. Rosenborg of Norway knock Shelbourne out 4–2 on aggregate in the second qualifying round.
Gaelic games
Golf
- Murphy's Irish Open was won by Patrik Sjöland (Sweden).
Births
- 1 February – Gavin Kilkenny, footballer
- 25 March – Conor Coventry, English footballer
- 6 July – Michael Obafemi, footballer
- 28 July – Lee O'Connor, footballer
- 16 October – David Rawle, actor
- 2 November – Demi Isaac Oviawe, Nigerian-born actress
Deaths
January to June
Frank Patterson (statue)
- 15 January – Alf Ringstead, footballer (b. 1927)
- 28 January – Tony Doyle, actor (b. 1942)
- 1 February – Patrick Shanahan, Fianna Fáil TD (b. 1908)
- 2 February – Francis Stuart, writer (b. 1902)
- 13 February – F. X. Martin, priest and historian (b. 1922)
- 25 February – Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fáil TD (b. 1926)
- 6 March – Jonathan Philbin Bowman, journalist and radio presenter (b. 1969)
- 20 April – John Carthy, shot dead by An Garda Síochána (b. 1972)
- 7 June – Mona Tyndall, missionary sister and development worker (b. 1921)
- 10 June – Frank Patterson, tenor (b. 1938)
July to December
- 10 July – Denis O'Conor Don, hereditary chief of the O'Conor Don sept (b. 1912)
- 14 August – John Boland, senior Fine Gael politician (b. 1944)
- 18 October – James Gill, cricketer (b. 1911)
- 8 November – Brian Boydell, composer, professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin (b. 1917)
- 18 November – Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh, physicist (b. 1933)
- 21 November – Paddy Flanagan, cyclist (b. 1941)
- 26 November – Paddy Donegan, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (b. 1923)
- 15 December – Paddy Barry, Cork hurler (b. 1928)
See also
References
- "Discovery Of R.M.S. Carpathia". Titanic-Titanic.com. 23 September 2000. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
- Licensing law regime Hayes Solicitors, July 2000.
- "Clinton arrives in Belfast". RTÉ News. 12 December 2000. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
External links
- 2000 at Reeling in the Years
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