March – Derek O'Connor, soccer player. 16 March – Jemma Redmond, biochemist, pioneer of 3D bioprinting (died 2016). 2 April – John Hoyne, Kilkenny hurler. 4 April – Alan Mahon, soccer player. 5 April – Stephen Murphy, soccer player. 19 April – Geordan Murphy, International rugby player. 23 April – Nicholas Murphy, Cork Gaelic footballer. 24 April – Jimmy Coogan, Kilkenny hurler. 29 April – David O'Loughlin, cyclist. 4 May – Stanerra, racehorse. 5 May – Paul Byrne, broadcast journalist. 10 June – Karl Scully, tenor. 21 June – Wayne Sherlock, Cork hurler. 25 June – Kieran Kelly, jump jockey (killed in racing accident 2003). 4 July – Derek Lyng, Kilkenny hurler. 18 July Shane Horgan, International rugby player. Annie Mac(Manus), DJ and broadcast presenter. 27 July – Brian Barry-Murphy, soccer player. July – Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Cork hurler. 8 August – Alan Maybury, soccer player. 21 August – Alan Lee, soccer player. 28 August – Barry Ryan, soccer player. 27 September – John Paul Phelan, Fine Gael Senator. 1 October – Barry Conlon, soccer player. 2 October – Eddie Brennan, Kilkenny hurler. 5 October – Shane Ryan, Gaelic footballer. 9 October – Nicky Byrne, entertainer, singer with Westlife & TV host. 17 October – Jerry Flannery, international rugby player. 25 October – Chris Keane, rugby player. 31 October – Ella McSweeney, radio and television producer 9 November – Martin Comerford, Kilkenny hurler. 15 December – Edele and Keavy Lynch, members of B*Witched. 22 December – Eugene Cloonan, Galway hurler. Full date unknown Caoimhe Butterly, human rights activist. Julie Feeney, singer songwriter. Mike FitzGerald, Limerick hurler. Richie Mullally, Kilkenny hurler. Mike O'Brien, Limerick hurler. Deaths 23 January – Cormac Breslin, Fianna Fáil TD and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (born 1902). 4 March – Emmet Dalton, Republican activist, soldier and film producer (born 1898 in the United States). 6 March – Micheál MacLiammóir, actor and dramatist (born 1899 in London). 21 March – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Attorney-general, Chief Justice of Ireland and fifth President of Ireland (born 1911). 7 July – Mary Swanzy, painter (born 1882; died in London). 28 August – Robert Shaw, actor and novelist (born 1927 in England). 12 September – Wilfred Hutton, cricketer (born 1901). October – Moss (Maurice) Twomey, chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (born 1897). 5 November – Denis O'Dea, actor (born 1905). 13 December – Jack Doyle, boxer, actor and singer