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'{{short description|Ireland-related events during the year of 2000}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2013}} {{refimprove|date=December 2011}} {{YearInIrelandNav|2000}} The following lists events that happened during the year '''2000 in [[Ireland]]'''. ==Incumbents== * [[President of Ireland|President]]: [[Mary McAleese]] * [[Taoiseach]]: [[Bertie Ahern]] ([[Fianna Fáil|FF]]) * [[Tánaiste]]: [[Mary Harney]] ([[Progressive Democrats|PD]]) * [[Minister for Finance (Ireland)|Minister for Finance]]: [[Charlie McCreevy]] ([[Fianna Fáil|FF]]) * [[Chief Justice of Ireland|Chief Justice]]: ** [[Liam Hamilton]] (until 1 June 2000) ** [[Ronan Keane]] (from 1 June 2000) * [[Dáil Éireann|Dáil]]: [[Members of the 28th Dáil|28th]] * [[Seanad Éireann|Seanad]]: [[Members of the 21st Seanad|21st]] ==Events== ===February=== * 3 February – [[John Gilligan (Irish criminal)|John Gilligan]]'s extradition from the UK to Ireland on drug trafficking and murder charges was completed. * 11 February – the [[British government]] suspended [[devolution]] in [[Northern Ireland]]. ===April=== * 10 April – the ambulance service regulator, the [[Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council]], was established. * Spring – [[Clive Cussler]]'s National Underwater and Marine Agency discovered the wreck of {{RMS|Carpathia}} (sunk 1918) {{convert|120|mi|km|abbr=on}} west of [[Fastnet Rock]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.titanic-titanic.com/carpathia_found.shtml|title=Discovery Of R.M.S. Carpathia|work=Titanic-Titanic.com|date=23 September 2000|accessdate=2012-03-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022092729/http://www.titanic-titanic.com/carpathia_found.shtml|archive-date=22 October 2007|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> ===May=== * 6 May – the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] began decommissioning its weapons. * 30 May – devolution returned to [[Northern Ireland]]. ===July=== * 6 July – the Intoxicating Liquor Act, 2000 came into effect abolishing the so-called "[[:wikt:holy hour|holy hour]]" between 2 pm and 4 pm on Sundays when pubs had been forced to close their doors.<ref>[http://www.hayes-solicitors.ie/news/news_14_2000_June_10.htm Licensing law regime] Hayes Solicitors, July 2000.</ref> ===December=== * 12 December – President [[Bill Clinton]] of the [[United States]] arrived in [[Dublin]] beginning his [[List of international trips made by the President of the United States|last international trip as President]] and met with President [[Mary McAleese]] and [[Taoiseach]] [[Bertie Ahern]] and gave a speech in [[Dundalk]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Clinton arrives in Belfast|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2000/1212/clinton.html|accessdate=18 March 2011|newspaper=RTÉ News|date=12 December 2000}}</ref> * 13 December – Bill Clinton met with the political leaders of [[Northern Ireland]]. * 31 December – Ireland celebrated as the 20th century drew to a close. ==Arts and literature== * 7 February – the [[Chester Beatty Library]] opened in its new premises in the grounds of [[Dublin Castle]]. * 31 October – boyband [[Westlife]] scored their seventh straight UK number one, becoming the only artists in UK chart history to achieve this. * December – the quarterly cultural magazine ''[[The Dublin Review]]'' was launched by Brendan Barrington. * [[John Banville]]'s novel ''[[Eclipse (John Banville novel)|Eclipse]]'' was published. * [[Anne Enright]]'s novel ''What Are You Like?'' was published. ==Sport== ===Association football=== [[Shelbourne FC|Shelbourne]] won the double of the [[League of Ireland]] [[League of Ireland Premier Division|Premier Division]] and the [[FAI Cup]] for the first time in their history. They then knocked out Macedonian side [[FK Sloga Jugomagnat|Sloga Jugomagnat]] in the first round of the [[UEFA Champions League]] qualifiers. Their 1–0 win in [[Skopje]] was the first away win in a European tie by a League of Ireland side for eighteen years. [[Rosenborg BK|Rosenborg]] of Norway knock Shelbourne out 4–2 on aggregate in the second qualifying round. ===Gaelic games=== *[[Kilkenny GAA|Kilkenny]] won the [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship]]. *[[Kerry GAA|Kerry]] won the [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]]. Yyyuuooooo fuck you all and fuck ireland ===Golf=== *[[Irish Open (golf)|Murphy's Irish Open]] was won by [[Patrik Sjöland]] ([[Sweden]]). ==Births== {{Expand section|date=February 2018}} * 16 October – [[David Rawle]], actor ==Deaths== <!--These are description lists; please see [[Help:List]] before changing--> ===January to June=== * 15 January – [[Alf Ringstead]], football player (born 1927). * 28 January – [[Tony Doyle (actor)|Tony Doyle]], actor (born 1942). * 1 February – [[Patrick Shanahan (politician)|Patrick Shanahan]], [[Fianna Fáil]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] (born 1908). * 2 February – [[Francis Stuart]], writer (born 1902). * 13 February – [[F. X. Martin]], priest and historian (born 1922). * 25 February – [[Tom McEllistrim (1926–2000)|Tom McEllistrim]], [[Fianna Fáil]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] (born 1926). * 6 March – [[Jonathan Philbin Bowman]], journalist and radio presenter (born 1969). * 20 April – [[Death of John Carthy|John Carthy]], shot dead in controversial circumstances by An [[Garda Síochána]] after a twenty-five-hour siege at his home (born 1972). * 7 June – [[Mona Tyndall]], missionary sister and development worker (born 1921). * 10 June – [[Frank Patterson]], tenor (born 1938). ===July to December=== * 10 July – [[Denis O'Conor Don]], hereditary chief of the [[O'Conor Don]] sept (born 1912). * 14 August – [[John Boland (Fine Gael politician)|John Boland]], senior [[Fine Gael]] politician (born 1944). * 18 October – [[James Gill (Irish cricketer)|James Gill]], cricketer (born 1911). * 8 November – [[Brian Boydell]], composer, professor of music at [[Trinity College, Dublin]] (born 1917). * 18 November – [[Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh]], [[physicist]] responsible for the O'Raifeartaigh Theorem and the O'Raifeartaigh Model of [[supersymmetry breaking]] (born 1933). * 21 November – [[Paddy Flanagan]], cyclist (born 1941). * 26 November – [[Paddy Donegan]], former [[Fine Gael]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] and Cabinet Minister (born 1923). * 15 December – [[Paddy Barry (Sarsfield's)|Paddy Barry]], [[Cork GAA|Cork]] hurler (born 1928). ==See also== *[[2000 in Irish television]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.rte.ie/tv/reelingintheyears/2000.html 2000] at ''[[Reeling in the Years]]'' {{Years in Ireland}} {{Year in Europe|2000}}'