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List of events in Ireland in 2000
The following lists events that happened during the year
2000 in Ireland
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Incumbents
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Events
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February
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April
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July
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- 6 July ? The Intoxicating Liquor Act, 2000 came into effect abolishing the so-called "
holy hour
" between 2 pm and 4 pm on Sundays when pubs had been forced to close their doors.
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December
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Arts and literature
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Sport
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Shelbourne
won the double of the
League of Ireland Premier Division
and the
FAI Cup
for the first time in their history.
They then knocked out Macedonian side
Sloga Jugomagnat
in
the first round
of the
2000?01 UEFA Champions League
qualifiers. Their 1?0 win in
Skopje
was the first away win in a European tie by a League of Ireland side for eighteen years.
Rosenborg
of Norway knock Shelbourne out 4?2 on aggregate in the second qualifying round.
Gaelic games
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Golf
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Births
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- 14 January
?
Jonathan Afolabi
, footballer
- 26 January
?
Heather Payne
, footballer
- 28 January
?
Aaron Connolly
, footballer
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- 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
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January to June
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- 15 January
?
Alf Ringstead
, footballer (b. 1927)
- 28 January
?
Tony Doyle
, actor (b. 1942)
- 1 February
?
Patrick Shanahan
,
Fianna Fail
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 Fail
TD
(b. 1926)
- 6 March
?
Jonathan Philbin Bowman
, journalist and radio presenter (b. 1969)
- 20 April
?
John Carthy
, shot dead by the
Garda Siochana
(b. 1972)
- 7 June
?
Mona Tyndall
, missionary sister and development worker (b. 1921)
- 10 June
?
Frank Patterson
, tenor (b. 1938)
July to December
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See also
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References
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