player. 10 October – Daryl McMahon, soccer player. 22 October – Tomás O'Leary, rugby union scrum-half. 24 October – Katie McGrath, actress. 25 October – Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, singer, Rose of Tralee in 2005. 27 October – Stephen Hiney, Dublin hurler. 31 October – Katy French, model and socialite (died 2007). 28 November – Peter Hynes, soccer player. 28 November – Mick Flannery, folk music singer-songwriter. 29 December – Cian O'Connor, Cork hurler. Full date unknown Linda Bhreathnach, actress. Philip Brennan, Dublin hurler. Thomas Gernon, winner of the Millennium Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (Ireland). Daráine Mulvihill, television personality. Kieran Murphy, Cork and Erin's Own hurler. James O'Brien, Limerick hurler. Deaths 30 January – Alan Cunningham, soldier noted for victories in the East African Campaign during the Second World War (born 1887). 8 February – Reginald N. Webster, businessman in America and Thoroughbred racehorse owner (born 1898). 16 March – Francis Connell, cricketer (born 1902). 20 March – Sheila Galvin, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1914). 25 March – Constantine Fitzgibbon, historian and novelist (born 1919). 20 April – Sarah Makem, traditional singer (born 1900). 6 May – Mícheál Ó Móráin, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1912). 18 May – Frank Aiken, Fianna Fáil TD and founding member, Cabinet Minister and Tánaiste (born 1898). 4 July – John Bodkin Adams, general practitioner in Eastbourne cleared of murdering one of his patients (born 1899). 21 August – Francis Evans, British diplomat (born 1897). 24 August – Johnny Quirke, Cork hurler (born 1911). 17 September – George Colley, Fianna Fáil TD, held six Ministerial posts including Tánaiste (born 1925). 18 September – Con Lehane, nationalist, member of the IRA Army Council and Dáil representative (born 1911). 24 October – Anthony Barry, businessman, Fine Gael TD, Seanad member and Lord Mayor of Cork (born 1901). 28 October – Roderick Gill, cricketer (born 1919). 22 November – Leonard Wibberley, author (born 1915). 23 December – Colin Middleton, artist (born 1910). Full date unknown Séamus Bhriain Mac Amhlaig, last known speaker of the Antrim dialect of the Irish language. David Neligan, policeman, "The Spy in the Castle" for Michael Collins (born 1899). Jim Ware, Waterford hurler (born 1908). See also 1983 in Irish television References 1980s in Ireland Years of the 20th century in Ireland Ireland