the Irish Football League as a separate organisation after 114 years. GAA 11 July - Armagh defeat Donegal 3-15 to 1-11 to win the Ulster Senior Football Championship. Golf Ryder Cup Three Irishmen, Pádraig Harrington, Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley, feature prominently on the victorious European team. Graeme McDowell wins the Telecom Italia Open. Motorcycling Robert Dunlop retires at the Isle of Man TT. Rugby Union Rugby Union Six Nations Championship Ireland win the Triple Crown for the first time since 1985. The team also becomes the first to beat England since their World Cup win. The results in full are as follows: Ireland 19-3 Italy Ireland 37-16 Scotland Ireland 19-13 England Ireland 17-35 France Ireland 36-15 Wales Births Brodie Spencer Darren Robinson (footballer) Deaths 11 January - Mairtín Crawford, poet and journalist (born 1967). 5 February - Harry West, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 to 1979, Stormont MP, Minister for Agriculture (born 1917). 2 March - Cormac McAnallen, Tyrone Gaelic footballer (born 1980). 13 April - Caron Keating, television presenter (born 1962). 24 June - Douglas Gageby, editor of Evening Press (1954–1959) and editor The Irish Times (1963–1974) and (1977–1986). 22 July - Bertie Peacock, footballer and football manager. 23 July - Joe Cahill, former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1920). 7 September - Ian Cochrane, novelist (born 1941). 28 October - Jimmy McLarnin, boxer (born 1907) 5 November - Basil McIvor, Ulster Unionist politician (born 1928). 8 December - Digby McLaren, geologist and palaeontologist in Canada (born 1919). 26 December - Frank Pantridge, physician, cardiologist and inventor of the portable defibrillator (born 1916). See also 2004 in England 2004 in Scotland 2004 in Wales References