17 September – Dublin were the All-Ireland football Champions following victory over Tyrone. Golf Murphy's Irish Open was won by Sam Torrance (Scotland). Hurling Under new manager Ger Loughnane, Clare won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship for the first time since 1914. Births 3 February – Orla Gartland, singer-songwriter 11 April – Sycerika McMahon, swimmer 5 August – Evan Finnegan, footballer 6 September – Oisin Murphy, jockey Unknown – Chris Walley, actor Deaths January to June 1 February – Tom O'Reilly, Cavan Gaelic footballer and independent TD for Cavan 1944–1948 (born 1915) 5 February – Des Foley, Gaelic footballer and hurler and Fianna Fáil TD (born 1940). 20 February – Thom McGinty ("The Diceman"), actor, model, and street mime artist (born 1952). 14 March – Gerard Victory, composer (born 1921). 30 March – Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1940 near Dunkirk, France (born 1911). 30 March – John Lighton Synge, mathematician and physicist (born 1897). 3 April – Jeremiah Newman, Bishop of Limerick. 14 April – Brian Coffey, poet and publisher (born 1905). 24 April – Florrie Burke, soccer player (born 1918). 7 June – Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright. 14 June – Rory Gallagher, guitarist (born 1948). 25 June – Ernest Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics (born 1903). 27 June – Gordon Wilson, peace campaigner (born 1927). July to December 4 July – Seán Fallon, Fianna Fáil politician, Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 1992 until his death. (born 1937) 12 July – Muriel Gahan, promoter of country crafts. 19 July – Paddy Keaveney, Independent Fianna Fáil TD (born 1929). 23 August – Johnny Carey, soccer player and manager (born 1919). 21 September – Frank Hall, journalist and satirist (born 1921). 27 September – Sean Conway, Fianna Fáil senator. 1 November – Brian Lenihan, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and Seanad Éireann member (born 1930). 8 November – Neil Blaney, Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and MEP (born 1922). 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). 25 December – James Boucher, cricketer (born 1910). Full date unknown Niall Ó Dónaill, Irish language lexicographer and writer