association football player. 7 May – Paul Kimmage, cyclist and sports journalist. 9 June – Bobby Browne, association football player. 15 June – Martin Earley, road bicycle racer. 26 June – Cyprian Brady, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central. 4 July – Martin Hayes, fiddle player. 11 July – Pauline McLynn, actress and writer. 14 July – Eamon Delaney, author and journalist. 19 July – Caitríona Ruane, Sinn Féin party Member of the Legislative Assembly and Minister for Education in Northern Ireland. 14 August Dan Boyle, former Green Party TD, Senator. Peter Eccles, association football player. 1 September – Tony Cascarino, international association football player. 11 October Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author. Eddie Hobbs, financial adviser and television presenter. 2 December – Kevin Brady, association football player. Full date unknown – Tom Spillane, Kerry Gaelic footballer. Deaths 1 February – Thomas Westropp Bennett, Cumann na nGaedheal party member of the Seanad, Cathaoirleach (chairperson) of Seanad (born 1867). 13 March – Anne Acheson, sculptor (born 1882). 14 March – Eileen Costello, Independent member of 1922 Seanad. 25 June – Robert Gwynn, cricketer (born 1877). 4 July – William Harman, cricketer (born 1869). 16 July – Frank Gallagher, Irish Volunteer and author (born 1893). 24 July – Margaret Buckley, president of Sinn Féin party from 1937 to 1950 (born 1879). October – Emily Anderson, British Foreign Office official and scholar of German (born 1891). See also 1962 in Irish television References 1960s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland