years. Rosenborg of Norway knock Shelbourne out 4–2 on aggregate in the second qualifying round. Gaelic games Kilkenny won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Kerry won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Golf Murphy's Irish Open was won by Patrik Sjöland (Sweden). Births 14 January – Jonathan Afolabi, footballer 26 January – Heather Payne, footballer 28 January – Aaron Connolly, footballer 1 February – Gavin Kilkenny, footballer 25 March – Conor Coventry, English-born footballer 4 May – Ciaran Booth, English-born rugby union player 6 July – Michael Obafemi, footballer 28 July – Lee O'Connor, footballer 7 August – Jordanne Jones, actress 7 August – Jaze Kabia, footballer 16 October – David Rawle, actor 2 November – Demi Isaac Oviawe, Nigerian-born actress Deaths January to June 15 January – Alf Ringstead, footballer (b. 1927) 28 January – Tony Doyle, actor (b. 1942) 1 February – Patrick Shanahan, Fianna Fáil TD (b. 1908) 2 February – Francis Stuart, writer (b. 1902) 13 February – F. X. Martin, priest and historian (b. 1922) 25 February – Tom McEllistrim, Fianna Fáil TD (b. 1926) 6 March – Jonathan Philbin Bowman, journalist and radio presenter (b. 1969) 20 April – John Carthy, shot dead by the Garda Síochána (b. 1972) 7 June – Mona Tyndall, missionary sister and development worker (b. 1921) 10 June – Frank Patterson, tenor (b. 1938) July to December 10 July – Denis O'Conor Don, hereditary chief of the O'Conor Don sept (b. 1912) 14 August – John Boland, senior Fine Gael politician (b. 1944) 18 October – James Gill, cricketer (b. 1911) 8 November – Brian Boydell, composer, professor of music at Trinity College Dublin (b. 1917) 18 November – Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh, physicist (b. 1933) 21 November – Paddy Flanagan, cyclist (b. 1941) 26 November – Paddy Donegan, former Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (b. 1923) 15 December – Paddy Barry, Cork hurler (b. 1928) See also 2000 in Irish television References External links 2000 at Reeling in the Years