2004 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

January to June
  • 5 February – Harry West, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 to 1979, Stormont MP, Minister for Agriculture (born 1917).
  • 18 February – Tommy Eglington, soccer player (born 1923).
  • 2 March – Cormac McAnallen, Tyrone Gaelic footballer (born 1980).
  • 4 March – Paddy Ruschitzko, Laois hurler (born 1917).
  • 6 March – Tom Leonard, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1924).
  • 24 March – Richard Leech, actor (born 1922).
  • 7 April – Maureen Potter, singer, actress and comedian (born 1925).
  • 8 April – Enda Colleran, former Gaelic footballer (born 1941).
  • 12 April – Sean Delaney, former soccer player and coach (born 1949).
  • 11 May – Mick Doyle, rugby player and coach, killed in car crash (born 1941).
  • 3 June – Joe Carr, amateur golfer (born 1922).
  • 6 June – Simon Cumbers, journalist murdered in Saudi Arabia (born 1968).
  • 8 June – Kit Lawlor, soccer player (born 1922).
  • 8 June – Máirín Lynch, widow of former Taoiseach Jack Lynch (born 1917).
  • 24 June – Douglas Gageby, journalist and newspaper editor (born 1918).
July to December
  • 23 July – Joe Cahill, former Chief of Staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (born 1920).
  • 16 November – Margaret Hassan, aid worker in Iraq, kidnapped and murdered by Iraqi insurgents (born 1945).
  • 20 November – Ian Lewis, cricketer (born 1935).
  • 2 December – Margaret Dolan, oldest woman in Ireland when she died aged 111 (born 1893).
  • 8 December – Digby McLaren, geologist and palaeontologist in Canada (born 1919).
  • 26 December – Frank Pantridge, physician, cardiologist and inventor of the portable defibrillator (born 1916).
Full date unknown
  • George Harrison, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and alleged gun-runner (born 1915).

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    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
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