2003 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

January to June
  • 8 January – Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, peer and public servant (born 1930).
  • 21 January – Tony O'Malley, painter (born 1913).
  • 23 January – Aodhagán Brioscú, last surviving founder of Irish cultural organisation Gael Linn.
  • 16 February – Seán Ó Cionnaith, Workers' Party of Ireland politician (born 1938).
  • 25 February – Tom O'Higgins, barrister and judge, Irish Chief Justice, Fine Gael TD and twice defeated Irish presidential candidate (born 1916).
  • 11 March – Brian Cleeve, writer and television broadcaster (born 1921).
  • 17 March – Linda Kavanagh, Workers' Party activist and Dublin City Council member.
  • 2 April – Pat Leavy, actress.
  • 6 April – Ian Malone, member of British Army's Irish Guards, shot dead in Iraq (born 1974).
  • 28 May – James Plunkett, novelist, author of Strumpet City. (born 1920).
  • 30 June – Constance Smith, actress (born 1928).
July to September
  • 16 July – James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the 1970 Arms Trial (born 1929).
  • 17 July – Eamonn Leahy, barrister and husband of Cabinet Minister Mary Hanafin.
  • 28 July – Valerie Goulding, former Senator and campaigner for the disabled (born 1918).
  • 3 August – Phil Monahan, founder of Monarch Properties Holdings Limited, leaving an estate worth €26.7 million.
  • 12 August – Kieran Kelly, jump jockey after a racing accident (born 1978).
  • 14 August – Donal Lamont, former Catholic Bishop in Rhodesia (born 1911).
  • 19 August – Dennis Flynn, soldier in Canada, Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (born 1923)
  • 20 September – Liam Tobin, longtime Árd Rúnaí Roinn na Gaeltachta and Irish language campaigner
  • 24 September – Tomás MacGabhann, trade unionist and Irish language activist
  • 28 September – Proinsias Mac Aonghusa, journalist, broadcaster, chairman Bord na Gaeilge, president Conradh na Gaeilge (born 1933).
October to December
  • 7 October – Frank Roe, former President of the Circuit Court.
  • 16 October – Ernest Bodell, cricketer (born 1928).
  • 10 December – Sean McClory, actor (born 1924).
  • 12 December – John McConnell, economics expert, journalist and civil servant.
  • 27 December – Patrick J. Reynolds, Fine Gael TD and Senator (born 1920).
  • 30 December – Archbishop Michael Courtney Papal Nuncio to Burundi who was assassinated.
  • 31 December – Gerald Goldberg, lawyer, Fianna Fáil politician and first Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork (born 1912).

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