O'Brien, soccer player. 28 February – Michael Fennelly, Kilkenny hurler. 2 April – Barry Corr, soccer player. 10 April – Willo Flood, soccer player. 23 April – Gary Mulligan, soccer player. 29 April – Pamela Myers, artist. 4 May – Laura Whitmore, presenter. 13 May – David Bell, soccer player. 8 June – Barry Murphy, soccer player. 15 June – Nadine Coyle, singer 6 July – Killian Scott, actor 10 July – Conan Byrne, soccer player. 17 July – Eoin Larkin, Kilkenny hurler. 22 July – Ryan Dolan, singer 28 July – Darren Murphy, Irish footballer 9 September – Tadhg Purcell, soccer player. 17 September – Brendan Clarke, soccer player. 20 September – George McMahon, actor. 2 October – Mark Quigley, soccer player. 6 October – Karl Bermingham, soccer player. 5 November – Ian Maher, soccer player. 4 December – Stephen Dawson, soccer player. 4 December – Richie Power, Kilkenny hurler. 9 December – Mark Leech, soccer player. 24 December – Donnacha Cody, Kilkenny hurler. 29 December – Patrick Kavanagh, soccer player. Full date unknown Deirdre Delaney, camogie player. Caoilinn Hughes, novelist. Deaths 18 January – Wilfrid Brambell, actor (born 1912). 21 February – Dermot Ryan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin (born 1924). 3 March – Noel Purcell, actor (born 1900). 14 March – Kathleen Lemass, wife of Seán Lemass (born 1898). May – Tommy Murphy, Laois Gaelic footballer (born 1921). 16 June – Alexis FitzGerald Snr, solicitor, Fine Gael Seanad member (born 1916). 17 June – Bernard Bergin, cricketer (born 1913). 29 September – Timothy McAuliffe, Labour Party politician (born 1909). 11 October – Todd Andrews, Irish revolutionary and public servant (born 1901). 4 November – Liam Grainger, Gaelic footballer (Dohenys, Clonakilty, Carbery, Cork senior team, Munster) (born 1913). 4 December – Frederick Boland, diplomat, first Irish ambassador to Britain and to the United Nations (born 1904). 8 December – Jimmy Rudd, soccer player (born 1919). 11 December – Kathleen Ryan, actress (born 1922). 17 December – Leo Maguire, singer, songwriter and radio broadcaster (born 1903). Full date unknown Sigerson Clifford, poet and playwright (born 1913). Fergus Crawford, soccer player (born 1933). Alex Stevenson, soccer player (born 1912). See also 1985 in Irish television References 1980s in Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland