1998 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1998 in Ireland.

Incumbents[]

  • President: Mary McAleese
  • Taoiseach: Bertie Ahern (FF)
  • Tánaiste: Mary Harney (PD)
  • Minister for Finance: Charlie McCreevy (FF)
  • Chief Justice: Liam Hamilton
  • Dáil: 28th
  • Seanad: 21st

Events[]

  • 1 January – the Vocational Education Committees of the towns of Bray, Drogheda, Sligo, Tralee and Wexford are abolished.
  • 14 January – the Planning Tribunal opens in Dublin Castle.
  • 27 February – Republic of Ireland qualifies for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union.
  • 15 March – former Fine Gael Minister Hugh Coveney dies in a fall from a cliff in County Cork.
  • 10 April (Good Friday) – The British and Irish governments and all the political parties in Northern Ireland (except the Democratic Unionists) sign the Belfast Agreement.
  • 24 April - the sixth edition of People in Need Telethon is held.
  • 22 May – the Good Friday Agreement is endorsed in a referendum by people north and south of the border.
  • 1 July – the new Northern Ireland Assembly first meets, in "shadow" form; Reg Empey and Seamus Mallon are elected First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively.
  • 15 August – Omagh bombing: 29 people die in a car bomb explosion near the centre of Omagh, County Tyrone, accused by the Real Irish Republican Army.
  • 4 September – Bill Clinton, President of the United States, begins his second official visit to the island of Ireland (his first being in 1995).
  • 20 September - Ireland's get a new television station called TV3.
  • 26 November – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas.[1]
  • 30 November – unemployment falls by 20% with the number of people in work rising by 100,000.
  • 12 December – members of the Labour Party and Democratic Left agree to merge.
  • 26 December – great Boxing Day Storm ('Hurricane Stephen'): Severe gale-force winds hit north west Ireland causing henry disruption to services.
  • 31 December – the Punt is traded for the last time as the Euro currency is launched.

Arts and literature[]

  • 28 February – actor and comedian Dermot Morgan dies suddenly in London.
  • 25 May – Patrick McCabe's novel Breakfast on Pluto is published.
  • 3 July – the boyband Westlife are formed.
  • 28 August – Maeve Binchy's novel Tara Road is published.
  • 20 September – TV3 goes on the air.
  • 7 October – Marina Carr's drama By the Bog of Cats opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
  • 24 December – Gay Byrne broadcasts his final radio show, from St Stephen's Green, Dublin.
  • John Montague becomes the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry.
  • Garry Hynes becomes the first woman to win a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play (The Beauty Queen of Leenane) on Broadway.
  • Brendan Graham's Great Famine novel The Whitest Flower is published.
  • Terence Dolan's A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English is published.

Sport[]

Gaelic football[]

Golf[]

  • Murphy's Irish Open is won by David Carter (England).

Hurling[]

Olympics[]

  • 6 August – Olympic gold medalist Michelle Smith is banned from competition for four years for tampering with a drug test.

Soccer[]

  • St Patrick's Athletic won the League of Ireland
  • Cork City FC won the FAI Cup
  • Shelbourne's home UEFA Cup tie against Rangers is moved to England due to fears of sectarian trouble. Despite taking a 3–0 lead, Shels lose 3–5.
  • 8 May – The Irish under-16 team wins the European Championship.
  • 26 July - The Irish under-18 team wins the European Championship.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 26 January – Ernest Gébler, writer (b. 1914).
  • 8 February – Niall Sheridan, poet, fiction writer and broadcaster (b. 1912).
  • 28 February – Dermot Morgan, actor and comedian (b. 1952).
  • 15 March – Hugh Coveney, Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister, yachtsman (b. 1935).
  • 17 April – Robin Lawler, soccer player (born 1925).
  • 6 May – Sybil Connolly, fashion designer (b. 1921).
  • 22 May – Jim Power, Galway hurler (b. 1894).
  • 26 May – Kate Cruise O'Brien, writer (b. 1948).
  • 23 June
  • 26 July – Seán Ó hEinirí, fisherman, seanchaí and last known monolingual speaker of the Irish language (b. 1915).
  • 13 August – , historian and archaeologist (b. 1926).
  • 20 September – Robert Malachy Burke, Christian Socialist and philanthropist (b. 1907).
  • 10 October – Tommy Quaid, Limerick hurler (b. 1957).
  • 11 November – Paddy Clancy, folk singer (b. 1922).
  • 13 November – Valerie Hobson, actress (b. 1917).
  • 21 November – John David Gwynn, cricketer (b. 1907).
  • 26 December – Cathal Goulding, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and the Official IRA (b. 1923).
  • Full date unknown – Patrick Hickey, visual artist (b. 1927).

See also[]

  • 1998 in Irish television

References[]

  1. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.

External links[]

  • 1998 at Reeling in the Years
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