2007 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

January to March
  • 3 January – Michael Yeats, Fianna Fáil Seanad member and MEP (born 1921).
  • 23 January – Jimmy Murray, Roscommon Gaelic footballer and All-Ireland Senior Football Championship-winning captain (born 1917).
  • 28 January – Bertie Troy, Roman Catholic priest and All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship-winning manager with Cork (born 1930).
  • 5 February – John S. Beckett, musician, composer and conductor (born 1927).
  • 8 February – Benedict Kiely, writer, broadcaster and journalist (born 1919).
  • 17 February – Dermot O'Reilly, musician, producer and songwriter (born 1942).
  • 25 February – Jackie Gilroy, former Dublin Gaelic footballer (born 1942).
  • 11 March – Dave Creedon, former Cork hurler (born 1919).
April to June
  • 2 April – Emma Groves, blinded by a rubber bullet in 1971, leading campaigner for banning the use of plastic bullets, co-founder of the United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets (born 1920).
  • 24 April – Kate Walsh, Progressive Democrats Senator (born 1947).
  • 29 April – Con Murphy, Cork hurler and former President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (born 1922).
  • 5 May – Michael ffrench-O'Carroll, Independent TD and Senator (born 1919).
  • 22 May – Dermot O'Brien, 74, former Louth Gaelic footballer and entertainer.
  • 30 May – Kieran Carey, Tipperary hurler (born 1933).
  • 1 June – John Moriarty, writer and philosopher (born 1938).
July to September
  • 1 July – John Egan, former Dublin GAA County Chairman (born 1951).
  • 9 July – John P. Wilson, Fianna Fáil TD and Cabinet Minister, former Cavan Gaelic footballer (born 1923).
  • 15 July – Kieron Moore, actor (born 1924).
  • 23 July – Joan O'Hara, actress (born 1930).
  • 1 August – Tommy Makem, folk singer (born 1932).
  • 3 August – Éamonn Young, Cork Gaelic footballer (born 1921).
  • 10 August – Tom Cheasty, Waterford hurler (born 1934).
  • 27 August – Tom Mulligan, Dublin Gaelic footballer (born 1977).
  • 30 August – Tom Munnelly, folk-song collector (born 1944).
  • 10 September – Joe Sherlock, Labour Party (Ireland) TD (born 1930).
  • 26 September – Mick Holden, Gaelic footballer and hurler (born 1955).
  • 28 September – Ciara Durkin, member of the Massachusetts National Guard who died under mysterious circumstances while deployed in Afghanistan (born 1977).
October to December
  • 2 October – Dan Keating, Ireland's oldest man and last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence (born 1902).
  • 3 October – Tony Ryan, businessman and philanthropist, founder of Guinness Peat Aviation and one of founders of Ryanair (born 1936).
  • 6 October – Tom Murphy, actor (born 1968.
  • 19 October – Johnny Clifford, Cork hurler (born 1934).
  • 22 October – Brendan McWilliams, meteorologist and science writer (born 1944).
  • 28 October – Anthony Clare, psychiatrist and broadcaster (born 1942).
  • 13 November – Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, businessman and politician (born 1920).
  • 13 November – Hugh Gibbons, Roscommon Gaelic footballer and Fianna Fáil TD (born 1916).
  • 15 November – Ned Power, Waterford hurler (born 1929).
  • 6 December – Katy French, model and socialite (born 1983).
  • 7 December – Mick Ryan, Tipperary hurler (born 1925).
  • 11 December – Christie Hennessy, folk singer songwriter (born 1945).
  • 14 December – Gene Fitzgerald, Fianna Fáil TD and MEP (born 1932).
  • 15 December – Jimmy O'Neill, soccer player (born 1931).
  • 26 December – Joe Dolan, singer (born 1939).
  • 27 December – Kit Ahern, Fianna Fáil TD (born 1915).
Full date unknown
  • Eamon Law, Kilkenny Irish handball player.

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