1994 in Ireland

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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, manager of Republic of Ireland national football team since 1986, is awarded the freedom of Dublin City.
• June 6 - Irish D-Day veterans join Allied leaders at a 50th commemorative ceremony on Omaha Beach.
• June 15- Christopher Curran is born
• June 18 - The Republic of Ireland's football World Cup campaign begins with a 1-0 win over Italy, one of the favourites to win the tournament. Ray Houghton, the Aston Villa winger, scores the winning goal.
• June 24 - The Republic of Ireland's chances of progressing to the last 16 of the World Cup are left hanging in the balance when they lose 2-1 to Mexico, with John Aldridge (striker with Tranmere Rovers) scoring the consolation goal.
• June 28 - The Republic of Ireland qualify for the next stage of the World Cup with a goalless draw against Norway.
• July 4 - The Republic of Ireland are knocked out of the World Cup by Holland when they lose 2-0 in Orlando.
• 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 - 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 - 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.
• December 15 - John Bruton, leader of Fine Gael, becomes Taoiseach of the so-called "Rainbow" government in coalition with Labour and the Democratic Left parties

Sport

Athletics

• Eamonn Coghlan becomes the first person in the world over 40 years of age to run a sub-four minute (indoor) mile.
• 10 December Catherina McKiernan wins Senior Women's gold in the 1994 European Cross Country Championships, the inaugural event of the series

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.

Soccer

• 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 inside 90 minutes, a 1-0 victory over 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).

11 April - Saoirse Murray / first woman to be the queen of ireland b.1993

July to December

• 18 July - Davoren Hanna, poet.
• 19 July - Éilis Dillon, author (b.1920).
• 12 August - (( michael fletcher)) (b.((1994 in ireland)).
• 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).