1994 in Ireland

Events

*April 14 - The Central Bank issues a new £5 note.
*April 30 - Ireland wins the 39th Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Rock 'n' Roll Kids."
*May 26 - Jack Charlton is awarded the freedom of Dublin City.
*June 6 - Irish D-Day veterans join Allied leaders at a 50th commemorative ceremony on Omaha Beach.
*July 26 - The Minister for Education, Niamh Bhreathnach, pledges the introduction of free third-level education for everyone over the next three years.
*August 31 - The IRA announces a complete cessation of military operations.
*September 1 - Transition Year is introduced mainstream, to secondary schools.
*September 6 - An Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, John Hume and Gerry Adams hold an historic meeting at Government Buildings. All three pledge their commitment to the democratic idea.
*September 30 - An Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and members of the government wait at Shannon Airport to greet President Boris Yeltsin. He fails to leave the aircraft to meet them.
*October 13 - Loyalist paramilitary groups announce a ceasefire six weeks after the IRA.
*October 28 - The inaugural session of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation takes place in St. Patricks Hall, Dublin Castle.
*November 16 - The Fianna Fáil-Labour coalition collapses.
*November 17 - Albert Reynolds tenders his resignation as Taoiseach. However, the Dáil is not dissolved.
*November 19 - Bertie Ahern is elected leader of Fianna Fáil.

Arts and literature

port

Athletics

*Eamonn Coghlan becomes the first person in the world over 40 years of age to run a sub-four minute (indoor) mile.

Gaelic football

*Down GAA beat Dublin GAA 1-12 to 0-13 in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final at Croke Park on September 18. It is Down's fifth All-Ireland senior title, and their second in four years.

Golf

*Murphy's Irish Open is won by Bernhard Langer (Germany).

Hurling

*Offaly GAA beat Limerick GAA 3-16 to 2-13 to win the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final at Croke Park for the first time since 1985.

occer

* In the World Cup Finals in the United States, the Republic of Ireland the last 16 before losing 2-0 to the Netherlands, but on the way picks up its first World Cup finals win, a 1-0 victory vs. Italy.

Births

*12 April - Saoirse Ronan, actress.

Deaths

January to June

*1 January - Raymond Crotty, economist.
*1 January - Andy McEvoy, soccer player (b.1938).
*19 February - Micho Russell, tin whistle player and collector of traditional music and folklore (b.1915).
*23 February - Jackie Power, Limerick hurler and Gaelic footballer (b.1916).
*6 March - Flann Campbell, educationists and historian.
*12 May - Alfred Lane Beit, British politician, art collector and philanthropist, honorary Irish citizen (b.1903).
*13 May - Duncan Hamilton, motor racing driver (b.1920).
*21 May - Martin Doherty member Provisional Irish Republican Army
*27 May - M.J. Molloy, playwright.
*17 June - Terence de Vere White, lawyer, novelist and biographer (b.1912).
*27 June - William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew (b.1905).

July to December

*18 July - Davoren Hanna, poet.
*19 July - Éilis Dillon, author (b.1920).
*5 August - Gerry O'Sullivan, Labour Party (Ireland) TD, Minister of State and Lord Mayor of Cork (b.1936).
*18 August - Martin Cahill, Dublin criminal, shot and killed (b.1949).
*23 September - James Brophy, cricketer (b.1912).
*6 December - Máire de Paor, archaeologist.
*20 December - Stephen Coughlan, Irish Labour Party TD and Mayor of Limerick (b.1910).