2005 in Ireland

Summary

Events from the year 2005 in Ireland.

2005
in
Ireland
Centuries:
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
  • 2020s
See also:2005 in Northern Ireland
Other events of 2005
List of years in Ireland

Incumbents edit

Events edit

January edit

February edit

  • 7 February – Taoiseach Bertie Ahern laid the foundation stone of a new town called Adamstown, just outside Lucan, County Dublin.
  • 17 February – Seven people were detained by the Garda Síochána for suspected activities in relation to a bank heist in Belfast in December 2004. £2.3 million sterling was seized in County Cork.

March edit

  • 4 March – The 100th Sinn Féin ardfheis (annual party conference) opened at the Royal Dublin Society in Ballsbridge, Dublin.
  • 11 March – The Irish Sugar Company factory in Carlow closed with the loss of several hundred jobs. It was Ireland's oldest sugar factory.
  • 27 March – Cian O'Connor was stripped of his Olympic gold medal after the sports ruling body find that his horse, Waterford Crystal, had banned substances in its system during the Olympic Games in 2004.

April edit

May edit

  • 23 May – Five schoolgirls died and many people were injured in a collision between a school bus and two other vehicles in County Meath.

June edit

  • 13 June – The Irish language was granted official status as a working language within the European Union.
  • 30 June – The M50 motorway was finally completed, 34 years after the route was first envisaged and 17 years after construction began.

July edit

  • 7 July – The Taoiseach met Pope Benedict XVI for a private audience in Rome.
  • 16 July – Irish student, Tara Whelan (17), and a British holidaymaker were among five people killed in the Kuşadası minibus bombing in Turkey.
  • 28 July – The Provisional Irish Republican Army made history by ending its armed campaign and ordering all its units to dump arms. The organisation also ordered its members not to engage in any other activities.
  • 29 July – Forty-five-year-old Limerick woman, Dolores McNamara, won €115 million in the EuroMillions rollover jackpot prize. It was Europe's largest ever lottery jackpot.

September edit

October edit

  • 14 October – Roy Keane announced his retirement from international football following Ireland's failure to qualify for World Cup 2006 in Germany.
  • 18 October – Tiede Herrema returned to the city of Limerick from which he was kidnapped 30 years ago in a high-profile case. Herrema presented his personal papers relating to the event to the University of Limerick Library.
  • 20 October – The abducted journalist Rory Carroll was released unharmed after being kidnapped in Iraq the previous day.
  • 25 October – The Ferns Report was published, detailing the investigation into clerical sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns.

November edit

December edit

Arts and literature edit

 
John Banville won the Man Booker Prize, for his novel The Sea.

Music edit

  • The comedy musical play I, Keano premièred in Dublin.

Sport edit

Association football edit

     Both Ireland teams failed to qualify

Setanta Cup
League of Ireland
Irish League
Irish Cup
FAI Carlsberg Cup

Gaelic games edit

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
Christy Ring Cup Final
Nicky Rackard Cup Final
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
Tommy Murphy Cup Final
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final
All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Championship Final

Golf edit

Rugby union edit

Deaths edit

 
Patrick Denis O'Donnell died in January.
 
Hugh Lambert died in December.
January to March
April to June
July to September
October to December

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Death of equestrian legend Darragh". RTÉ. 4 January 2005. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Obituary: Jack Stanley Gibson". BMJ. 18 June 2005. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Galway star Mattie McDonagh dies". Irish Examiner. 11 April 2005. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Former Fine Gael TD Burke dies aged 77". RTÉ. 21 August 2005. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  5. ^ "MURPHY : Death notice". Irish Times Family Notices. Retrieved 8 January 2022.