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1998 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1998 in Ireland
.
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See also:
1998 in Northern Ireland
Other events of 1998
List of years in Ireland
Incumbents
edit
President
:
Mary McAleese
Taoiseach
:
Bertie Ahern
(
FF
)
Tánaiste
:
Mary Harney
(
PD
)
Minister for Finance
:
Charlie McCreevy
(
FF
)
Chief Justice
:
Liam Hamilton
Dáil
:
28th
Seanad
:
21st
Events
edit
1 January – The
Vocational Education Committees
of the towns of
Bray
,
Drogheda
,
Sligo
,
Tralee
and
Wexford
were abolished.
14 January – The
Mahon Planning Tribunal
opened in
Dublin Castle
.
27 February – Ireland qualified for entry into the
Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union
.
15 March – Former
Fine Gael
party minister
Hugh Coveney
died in a fall from a cliff in
County Cork
.
10 April (
Good Friday
) – The
British
and
Irish
governments and all the political parties in Northern Ireland (except the
Democratic Unionists
) signed the
Belfast Agreement
(also called Good Friday Agreement).
24 April - The sixth edition of
People in Need Telethon
was held.
22 May – The Good Friday Agreement was endorsed in a referendum by people
north
and
south
of the
Irish border
.
1 July – The new
Northern Ireland Assembly
first met, in "shadow" form;
Reg Empey
and
Seamus Mallon
were elected
First Minister and deputy First Minister
respectively.
15 August –
Omagh bombing
: 29 people died in a car bomb explosion near the centre of
Omagh
,
County Tyrone
by the
Real Irish Republican Army
(Real IRA).
4 September – President
Bill Clinton
of the United States began his second official visit to the island of Ireland (his first being in 1995).
20 September - A new television station called
TV3
was launched.
26 November –
Tony Blair
became the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the
Oireachtas
.
[1]
30 November – Unemployment fell by 20% with the number of people in work rising by 100,000.
12 December – Members of the
Labour Party
and
Democratic Left
agreed to merge.
26 December – Great
Boxing Day Storm
('Hurricane Stephen'): Severe
gale-force winds
hit northwest Ireland causing heavy disruption to services.
31 December – The
punt
currency was traded for the last time as the
euro
currency was launched.
Arts and literature
edit
28 February – Actor and comedian
Dermot Morgan
died suddenly in
London
.
25 May –
Patrick McCabe
's novel
Breakfast on Pluto
was published.
3 July – The boyband
Westlife
was formed.
28 August –
Maeve Binchy
's novel
Tara Road
was published.
20 September – The
TV3
television channel went on the air.
7 October –
Marina Carr
's drama
By the Bog of Cats
opened at the
Abbey Theatre
, Dublin.
24 December –
Gay Byrne
broadcast his final radio show, from
St Stephen's Green
, Dublin.
John Montague
became the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry.
Garry Hynes
became the first woman to win a
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play
(
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
) on
Broadway
.
Brendan Graham
's
Great Famine
novel
The Whitest Flower
was published.
Terence Dolan
's
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English
was published.
Sport
edit
Association football
edit
St Patrick's Athletic
won the
League of Ireland
.
Cork City
won the
FAI Cup
.
Shelbourne
's home
UEFA Cup
tie against
Rangers
was moved to England due to fears of sectarian trouble. Despite taking a 3–0 lead, Shelbourne lost 3–5.
8 May – The
Irish under-16
team won the
European Championship
.
26 July - The
Irish under-18
team won the
European Championship
.
Gaelic football
edit
Galway
won the
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
, beating
Kildare
in the
final
.
Golf
edit
Murphy's Irish Open
was won by
David Carter
(England).
Hurling
edit
Offaly
won the
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
for the second time in five years.
Swimming
edit
6 August – Olympic gold medalist
Michelle Smith
was banned from competition for four years for tampering with a drug test.
Births
edit
17 March –
Nathan O'Toole
, actor
8 August –
Liam Scales
, footballer
Deaths
edit
26 January –
Ernest Gébler
, writer (b. 1914).
8 February –
Niall Sheridan
, poet, fiction writer and broadcaster (b. 1912).
28 February –
Dermot Morgan
, actor and comedian (b. 1952).
15 March –
Hugh Coveney
,
Fine Gael
TD
and Cabinet Minister, yachtsman (b. 1935).
17 April –
Robin Lawler
, soccer player (born 1925).
6 May –
Sybil Connolly
, fashion designer (b. 1921).
22 May –
Jim Power
,
Galway
hurler
(b. 1894).
26 May –
Kate Cruise O'Brien
, writer (b. 1948).
23 June
Paul O'Dwyer
, lawyer and politician in the United States (b. 1907).
Maureen O'Sullivan
, actress (b. 1911).
26 July –
Seán Ó hEinirí
, fisherman,
seanchaí
and monolingual speaker of the
Irish language
(b. 1915).
13 August – Liam de Paor, historian and archaeologist (b. 1926).
20 September –
Robert Malachy Burke
,
Christian Socialist
and philanthropist (b. 1907).
10 October –
Tommy Quaid
,
Limerick
hurler (b. 1957).
11 November –
Paddy Clancy
, folk singer (b. 1922).
13 November –
Valerie Hobson
, actress (b. 1917).
21 November –
John David Gwynn
, cricketer (b. 1907).
26 December –
Cathal Goulding
,
Chief of Staff
of the
Irish Republican Army
and the
Official IRA
(b. 1923).
Full date unknown –
Patrick Hickey
, visual artist (b. 1927).
See also
edit
1998 in Irish television
References
edit
^
Penguin Pocket On This Day
. Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0
.
External links
edit
1998 at
Reeling in the Years