2006 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

January to March
  • 1 January – Hugh McLaughlin, publisher and inventor (born 1918).
  • 12 January – Brendan Cauldwell, actor (born 1922).
  • 15 January – Mella Carroll, former judge of the High Court (born 1934).
  • 27 January – Dr. Peter Kavanagh, writer, scholar and publisher (born 1916).
  • 31 January – Ruairí Brugha, Fianna Fáil TD, Member of the European Parliament, member of the Seanad (born 1917).
  • 5 February – Dermot FitzGerald, businessman and philanthropist (born 1935).
  • 23 February – Frank Filgas, cricketer (born 1926).
  • 25 March – Bob Carlos Clarke, photographer (born 1950).
  • 28 March – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, fiddle player (born 1922).
  • 30 March – John McGahern, writer (born 1934).
April to June
  • 2 April – Paddy Crowley, soccer player (born 1932).
  • 4 April – Denis Donaldson, former member of Sinn Féin who was exposed in 2005 as an MI5 spy (born 1950).
  • 4 April – John de Courcy Ireland, maritime historian and political activist (born 1911).
  • 25 April – John Kerr, singer (b. c1925).
  • 11 May – Michael O'Leary, former Tánaiste and Labour Party leader (born 1936).
  • 13 May – Desmond Surfleet, cricketer (born 1912).
  • 16 May – Clare Boylan, author, journalist and critic (born 1948).
  • 18 May – Michael O'Riordan, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and founder of the Communist Party of Ireland (born 1917).
  • 26 May – Kevin O'Flanagan, physician, rugby and soccer player and Olympic official (born 1919).
  • 19 May – Shay Gibbons, former international soccer player (born 1929).
  • 10 June – Bobby Miller, Gaelic footballer and manager (born 1950).
  • 13 June – Charles Haughey, former Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil (born 1925).
  • 18 June – Luke Belton, former Fine Gael TD (born 1918).
  • 20 June – Michael Herbert, former Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (born 1925).
  • 21 June – Denis Faul, monsignor, Northern Ireland civil rights activist, chaplain to prisoners in Maze Prison during 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (born 1932).
  • 30 June – Dave P. Tyndall, Jr., businessman (born 1917).
July to September
  • 5 July – Lewis Glucksman, businessman, philanthropist, patron of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC (born 1925).
  • 7 July – Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, folk and traditional musician (born 1952).
  • 8 July – Michael Barrett, former Fianna Fáil TD (born 1927).
  • 12 July – Noel Sheridan, 70, actor, artist, Director National College of Art and Design (1979–2003).
  • 12 July – Joe Langan, 63, former Mayo Gaelic footballer.
  • 23 July – Vere Wynne-Jones, 56, RTÉ broadcaster.
  • 28 July – Billy Walsh, soccer player and manager (born 1921).
  • 14 August – John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, author and journalist (born 1920).
  • 17 August – Ken Goodall, international rugby player (born 1947).
  • 14 September – Seán Ó Tuama, 80, writer and academic.
  • 18 September – Seán Clancy, veteran of the Irish War of Independence (born 1901).
  • 20 September – Tommy Traynor, soccer player (born 1933).
  • September – Mick Haughney, Laois Gaelic footballer.
October to December
  • 2 October – Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, former Ceann Comhairle and Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (born 1918).
  • 5 October – Jarlath Carey, 74, former Down Gaelic footballer.
  • 10 October – Ham Lambert, cricketer and rugby player (born 1910).
  • 16 October – Niall Andrews, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (born 1937).
  • 18 October – Liam Bennett, 55, former Wexford hurler.
  • 9 November – Sam Stephenson, architect (born 1933).
  • 16 November – Frank Durkan, lawyer in the United States (born 1930).
  • 18 November – Roger Bolton, trade unionist in UK (born 1947).
  • 4 December – Andy O'Brien, Fine Gael senator from County Cavan. (born 1915).
  • 16 December – Tony O'Shaughnessy, former Cork hurling player.
Full date unknown
  • Jimmy Phelan, Kilkenny hurler (born 1918).

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