tournament held. Births 8 January – Peter Sheridan, playwright, screenwriter, director and author. 30 January – Anne Doyle, newsreader. 2 February – Brian Murphy, Cork Gaelic footballer and hurler. 10 February – Martin Ferris, Provisional IRA member, Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North. 25 February – Seánie O'Leary, Cork hurler (died 2021). 3 March – Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian (died 1998). 18 March – Pat Eddery, flat racing jockey (died 2015). 26 March – Martin O'Doherty, Cork hurler. 29 March – John Gilligan, drug smuggler implicated in the murder of Veronica Guerin. 14 April – Mickey O'Sullivan, Kerry Gaelic footballer, Limerick manager. 28 April – Gerald Barry, composer. 2 May – John Ellis, Fianna Fáil TD, Senator. 10 May – Ger Canning, Gaelic Athletic Association hurling and football commentator. 12 May – Pat Hooper, long-distance runner. 14 May – Tim Crowley, Cork hurler. 19 May – Bibi Baskin, television presenter. 9 June – Tony Killeen, Fianna Fáil TD for Clare, Minister of State. 27 June – Ger Power, Kerry Gaelic footballer. July – Anne Anderson, 17th Ambassador of Ireland to the United States, first woman to hold the post. 11 July – Tom Kitt, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South, Government Chief Whip. 4 August – Moya Brennan, singer. 5 August – Louis Walsh, manager in the music industry, judge on The X Factor. 7 August – Eamonn Darcy, golfer. 9 August – Dinny Allen, Cork Gaelic footballer. 25 August – Martin Duffy, filmmaker and writer. 11 September – Jimmy Deenihan, Fine Gael TD for Kerry North. 27 September – Liam Aylward, Fianna Fáil TD, MEP representing East. 6 October – Matthew Sweeney, poet (died 2018). 7 October – Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, folk and traditional musician (died 2006). 22 October – Mick Fairclough, soccer player. 1 November – Willie O'Dea, barrister-at-law, lecturer, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála representing Limerick East, Cabinet Minister. 8 November – Felim Egan, painter (died 2020). 21 November – Eamonn Coghlan, four-time Olympian and world championship winning runner. 28 November – Pat Cox, Progressive Democrats TD, MEP representing Munster, 5th President of the directly elected European Parliament and television presenter. 14 December – Noel Synnott, soccer player and manager. Full date unknown Harry Clifton, poet. John MacKenna, playwright and novelist. Shelley McNamara, architect. Michael Mulcahy, painter. Maurice Scully, poet and editor. Peter Sheridan, playwright. Deaths 6 February – George VI of the United Kingdom of Great