2008 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1 January - Philip Hogarty, 19, chair of the Irish Chess Union, killed by a Garda patrol car.
  • 1 January – Peter Caffrey, actor (born 1949).
  • 3 January – John O'Donohue, poet and philosopher (born 1956).
  • 26 January – Raymond Daniels, Wicklow Gaelic footballer (born 1979).
  • 27 January – Dan Kavanagh, 87, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
  • 1 February – Brendan O'Reagan, 91, founder of airport duty-free
  • 13 February – Paul Goldin, hypnotist
  • 23 February – Jim English, former Wexford hurler (born 1932).
  • 29 February – Chris Cary, 61, broadcaster and founder of Radio Nova (Ireland). Died in on a working trip in Tenerife from a stroke.
  • 5 March – Jimmy Faulkner, guitarist with Christy Moore and other groups.
  • 6 March – Garry McMahon, 70, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
  • 7 March – Tommy O'Brien, 63, former handballer.
  • 3 April – Brendan O'Brien, 67, musician (The Dixies), probable heart attack.
  • 4 April – Pat Stakelum, former Tipperary hurler (born 1927).
  • 12 April – Patrick Hillery, 84, former President of Ireland.
  • 13 April – Michael Mills, 80, former journalist and Ireland's first government ombudsman (1984–1994).
  • 28 April – John Barron, 74, former Waterford hurler.
  • 2 May – Martin Codd, former Wexford hurler (born 1929).
  • 9 May – Nuala O'Faolain, 68, journalist and writer.
  • 21 May – Brian Keenan, 66, Provisional Irish Republican Army member.
  • 31 May – Terry Keane, 68, former gossip columnist.
  • 28 June – Paddy Canny, 89, fiddle player.
  • 9 July – Séamus Brennan, 60, Fianna Fáil TD and former government minister.
  • 22 July – Paudie O'Donoghue, 64, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
  • 2 August – Ger McDonnell, 37, mountaineer, first Irishman to reach K2 summit, climbing accident.
  • 3 August – Con O'Shea, former Kerry Gaelic footballer.
  • 9 August – Colm Condon, 87, lawyer, Attorney General (1965–1973).
  • 13 August – Nollaig Ó Gadhra, 64, Irish language activist, journalist and historian, co-founder of Teilifís na Gaeilge.
  • 16 August – Ronnie Drew, 73, singer, founding member of The Dubliners, after long illness.
  • 28 August – Larry Fanning, 86, former Waterford hurler.
  • 15 September – Ciaran Duffy, 42, managing director of Namibia Breweries Limited, cancer.
  • 21 September – Paul Tansey, 59, economics editor (The Irish Times).
  • 24 September – Claude Wilton, 89, Northern Irish politician, solicitor and civil rights campaigner
  • 26 September – Bernadette Greevy, 68, mezzo-soprano.
  • 16 October – Greg Fives, 59, former Waterford Gaelic football manager.

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)