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'{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2011}} {{refimprove|date=December 2011}} {{YearInIrelandNav|2000}} ==Events== * 3 February – [[John Gilligan (Irish criminal)|John Gilligan]]'s extradition from the UK to Ireland on drug trafficking and murder charges is completed. * 11 February – The [[British government]] suspends devolution in [[Northern Ireland]]. * 10 April – The ambulance service regulator, the [[Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council]], is established. * 6 May – The [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] begins decommissioning its weapons. * 30 May – Devolution returns to [[Northern Ireland]]. * 12 December – [[Bill Clinton|President Clinton]] of the United States arrives in [[Dublin]] beginning what is his [[List of international trips made by the President of the United States|final overseas trip]] as [[President of the United States|President]] and meets with [[Mary McAleese|President McAleese]], with [[Taoiseach]] [[Bertie Ahern]] and gives 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=RTE News|date=12 December 2000}}</ref> * 13 December – Bill Clinton meets with the political leaders of [[Northern Ireland]]. * 31 December – Ireland celebrates as the 20th century draws to a close. ==Arts and literature== * 31 October – Boyband [[Westlife]] score their seventh straight UK number one and still remain to be the only artist in UK chart history to have 7 straight chart-toppers. ==Sport== ===Association Football=== [[Shelbourne FC|Shelbourne]] win 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. Shels then knock 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 Shels our 4–2 on aggregate in the second qualifying round. ===Gaelic Games=== [[Kerry GAA]] win the [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]]. [[Kilkenny GAA]] win the [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship]]. ===Golf=== *[[Irish Open (golf)|Murphy's Irish Open]] is won by [[Patrik Sjöland]] ([[Sweden]]). ==Births== {{Empty section|date=July 2010}} sean egan niall duffy millionaires == Deaths == ===January to June=== *28 January – [[Tony Doyle (actor)|Tony Doyle]], actor (b.1942). *1 February – [[Patrick Shanahan]], [[Fianna Fáil]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] (b.1908). *2 February – [[Francis Stuart]], writer (b.1902). *25 February – [[Tom McEllistrim (1932–2000)|Tom McEllistrim]], [[Fianna Fáil]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] (b.1932). *6 March – [[Jonathan Philbin Bowman]], journalist and radio presenter (b.1969). *20 April – [[John Carthy]], shot dead in controversial circumstances by An [[Garda Síochána]] after a twenty-five hour siege at his home (b.1972). *7 June – [[Mona Tyndall]], missionary sister and development worker (b.1921). *10 June – [[Frank Patterson]], tenor (b.1938). ===July to December=== *10 July – [[Denis O'Conor Don]], hereditary chief of the [[O'Conor Don]] sept (b.1912). *14 August – [[John Boland (politician)|John Boland]], senior [[Fine Gael]] politician (b.1944). *18 October – [[James Gill (cricketer)|James Gill]], cricketer (b.1911). *8 November – [[Brian Boydell]], composer, professor of music at [[Trinity College, Dublin]] (b.1917). *18 November – [[Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh]], [[physicist]] responsible for the O'Raifeartaigh Theorem and the O'Raifeartaigh Model of [[supersymmetry breaking]] (b.1933). *26 November – [[Paddy Donegan]], former [[Fine Gael]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] and Cabinet Minister (b.1923). ===Full date unknown=== *[[Paddy Barry (Sarsfield's)|Paddy Barry]], [[Cork GAA|Cork]] hurler (b.1928). *[[Paddy Flanagan]], cyclist (b.1941). *[[Alf Ringstead]], soccer player (b.1927). ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:2000 In Ireland}}'