33, distance runner, car crash. 19 February – Catherine Nevin, 67, convicted murderer, brain tumour. 20 February Brendan Heneghan, 53, politician and businessman, heart attack. Frank Norberg, 69, hurler (Cork). 28 February – Kieron Durkan, 44, footballer (national under-21 team), suicide. March 3 March Emma Hannigan, 45, author, cancer. Fred Perry, 84, businessman and golf official, road traffic collision. 4 March – Carmel McSharry, 91, character actress (Casualty, Z-Cars). 8 March – Pearse Lyons, 73, businessman, complications following heart surgery. 10 March Garech Browne, 78, arts patron. Val Mulkerns, 93, novelist. 14 March – Liam O'Flynn, 72, uileann piper, cancer. 17 March Elisha Gault, 14, missing teenager, drowned Ned Kavanagh, 93, hurler (Kilkenny). 19 March – Joseph Gallagher, 93, surgeon. 21 March – Jim Good, 94, Roman Catholic priest and academic. 23 March – Seán Treacy, 94, politician, TD (1961–1997), Ceann Comhairle (1987–1997). 31 March – Frank Murray, 76, civil servant. April 1 April – Joseph Mallin, 104, priest and the last surviving child of an executed leader of the 1916 Easter Rising (Michael Mallin). 2 April – Justin Nelson, 82, photographer, cameraman and television producer (RTÉ), Parkinson's disease. 7 April – Barney Sheehan, 84, writer and poet, Parkinson's disease. 9 April Liam Devally, 85, broadcaster, singer, barrister and judge. Timmy Matley, 36, singer (The Overtones), skin cancer. 10 April – Gerry McGuinness, 79, businessman and founder of the Sunday World. 17 April – Big Tom, 81, country music singer. 24 April – Tommy Varden, 79, businessman and Galway GAA sponsor, short illness. 29 April – Tony Lambert, musician (The Saw Doctors), heart condition. May 3 May – Monica Barnes, 82, politician, Senator (1982) and TD (1982-1992 and 1997–2002). 5 May – Séamus Lagan, 71, Gaelic footballer. 8 May Michael Stokes, 15, teenager who appeared on RTÉ's Room to Improve, accident. Abigail Hennessy, actress and theatre director. 9 May – Arthur Fitzsimons, 88, footballer. 12 May – Kevin Tierney, 67, Irish-Canadian film producer and journalist, cancer. 14 May – T. P. Burns, 94, jockey. 15 May – Tom Murphy, 83, playwright. 16 May – Joe Byrne, 64, jockey. 18 May Liam Ó Muirthile, 68, poet. Christopher Jones, 82, Bishop of Elphin. Sir Des Champs, 12, racehorse. 25 May – Brendan Ingle, 77, trainer, manager and former professional boxer. June 2 June – Seán McSweeney, 82, painter. 3 June – John Coolahan, 76, academic, teacher, author and educational adviser. 4 June