2004 in Ireland

Deaths

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).

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).