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List of events in Ireland in 2007
Events from the year 2007 in Ireland .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Music
Sport
European Championship Qualifiers
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7 February –
San Marino 1–2
Ireland
24 March – Ireland 1–0
Wales
28 March – Ireland 1–0
Slovakia
8 September – Slovakia 2–2 Ireland
12 September –
Czech Republic 1–0 Ireland
13 October – Ireland 0–0
Germany
17 October – Ireland 1–1
Cyprus
17 November – Wales 2–2 Ireland
Ireland finished third in the Group and failed to qualify.
Cricket
2007 Cricket World Cup : In a successful world cup debut, the
Ireland cricket team qualified from the group stage for the Super 8 stage, notably defeating
Pakistan cricket team in the process.
Gaelic games
Football
2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final
16 September:
Kerry 3–13
Cork 1–9
Hurling
2007 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final
2 September:
Kilkenny 2–19
Limerick 1–15
Golf
Rugby union
Deaths
January to June
3 January –
Michael Yeats ,
Fianna Fáil Seanad member and
Member of the European Parliament (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).
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
Teachta Dála (TD) and Senator (born 1919).
22 May –
Dermot O'Brien , former
Louth Gaelic footballer and entertainer (born 1932).
30 May –
Kieran Carey ,
Tipperary hurler (born 1933).
1 June –
John Moriarty , writer and philosopher (born 1938).
July to December
Dan Keating
Anthony Clare
Joe Dolan
1 July –
John Egan , former
Dublin GAA County Chairman (born 1951).
9 July –
John 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 1954).
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 co-founder 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
15 November –
Ned Power ,
Waterford hurler (born 1929).
3 December –
Eileen Proctor , founder and president of the National Association of Widows in Ireland (born 1916).
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
See also
References
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