2 February – President Mary Robinson addressed a joint session of the Houses of the Oireachtas.
15 February – English football hooligans rioted at Lansdowne Road stadium in Dublin during a friendly match between Ireland and England. The match was abandoned with Ireland 1–0 up. There were over 70 injuries, most of them English. The English fans were escorted out of Dublin by the Irish Army.
22 February – The British Prime Minister, John Major, and the Taoiseach, John Bruton, launched a peace framework document for Northern Ireland.
7 March – Sir Patrick Mayhew, Northern Ireland Secretary, set out the conditions for Sinn Féin to join all-party peace talks, including "the actual decommissioning of some arms."
19 March – Dublin boxer Steve Collins beat world champion Chris Eubank to win the World Boxing Organization super middleweight championship title.
19 May – Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh made a visit to Northern Ireland. On the same day U.S. President Bill Clinton approved a visa for Gerry Adams to enter the United States.
25 May – The last edition of The Irish Press newspaper was published.
12 December – Plans for a £200 million light rail transit system in Dublin were announced. Eventually to be called Luas, it was to connect the city centre with Sandyford, Tallaght and Ballymun.
16 December – A tribunal was established to compensate victims of Hepatitis C.
Rachel Joynt and Remco de Fouw's sculpture Perpetual Motion was installed on the Naas by-pass.
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15 February – A match between Ireland and England was abandoned in the first half after some of the England fans ripped out seating in the West Stand of Lansdowne Road stadium and hurled it onto the pitch. Ireland had been leading 1–0 before the match was stopped.
8 December – Philip Lawrence, London-based headmaster stabbed to death outside the gates of his school when he went to help a pupil being attacked by a gang (born 1947).
18 December – Colville Deverell, cricketer and politician (born 1907).
19 December – P. A. Ó Síocháin, journalist, author and lawyer (born 1905).