Events during the year 2016 in Ireland .
Incumbents
President Michael D. Higgins
Events
January
February
March
May
June
13 June – The Ireland football team played their first match, against Sweden , at the Euro 2016 football competition.[ 6]
21 June – The US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Ireland for a six-day visit with his brother and sister, daughter, and five grandchildren. His itinerary included visits to his ancestral counties of Louth and Mayo , the neolithic monument at Newgrange in County Meath , and engagements in Dublin including meeting President Michael D. Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny . Biden visited Ireland a number of times previously in a private capacity.[ 7]
July
September
Sports
UEFA Euro 2016
Gaelic games
2016 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final 4 September – Kilkenny 2–20 – 2-29 Tipperary 2016 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final 1 October – Dublin 1-15 – 1-14 Mayo (Replay)
Horse racing
Rugby union
Summer Olympics: Rio de Janeiro
Qualification Event 4 August – the Irish Examiner [ 30] Michael O'Reilly .[ 31] [ 32]
5 August – on the day of the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony , police in Rio de Janeiro arrest two people for attempted illegal resale of hundreds of tickets allocated to the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI).
7 August – Michael O'Reilly's legal team announces it is to officially appeal the boxer's proposed suspension following a failed drug test.[ 33]
8 August – boxing captain Paddy Barnes , who medalled at the previous two Olympics, loses his opening bout to a Spaniard in a shock result.[ 34]
9 August – boxer Michael O'Reilly is ruled out of the Olympics after announcing he is no longer contesting his proposed suspension and admitting to taking a supplement that may have contained a banned substance.[ 35] [ 36]
14 August – Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Shane Ross flies to Rio de Janeiro to meet with OCI president Pat Hickey in a bid to have Hickey permit an independent member be included on the OCI's own inquiry into the ticketing fiasco.[ 37] [ 38]
15 August – defending lightweight champion Katie Taylor loses her Olympic crown to a Finn in her opening bout.[ 39]
16 August – boxer Michael Conlan , a favourite for the gold medal, loses his opening bout to a Russian in contentious circumstances.[ 40]
17 August – OCI president Pat Hickey is arrested naked in a hotel room in Rio de Janeiro and charged with three crimes.[citation needed
18 August – the now former OCI president Pat Hickey is photographed being wheeled to prison from a hospital in his pyjamas.[ 41] International Olympic Committee , his role as president of the European Olympic Committees and his role as vice-president of the Association of National Olympic Committees .[ 42] [ 38]
21 August – the 2016 Summer Olympics concludes, as more IOC officials are sought by Brazilian police and the organisation's former president remains locked up in a Rio de Janeiro jail.[ 43] [ 44]
Arts and literature
Deaths
January to July
Christy O'Connor Jnr Terry Wogan Adrian Hardiman Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet 3 January – Amby Fogarty , 82, footballer (Sunderland , Hartlepool United , Cork Celtic and Cork Hibernians ).[ 47]
5 January – Gerry O'Malley , 87, Gaelic footballer and hurler (Roscommon ).[ 48]
6 January – Christy O'Connor Jnr , 67, golfer .[ 49]
7 January – Patrick Connolly , 88, Attorney General .[ 50]
8 January – Paddy Reid , 91, rugby union player.[ 51]
15 January – P. J. Mara , 73, public affairs consultant and senator, long illness.[ 52]
16 January – Molly Madden, 109, Ireland's oldest person.[ 53]
17 January – Billy Quinn , 80, hurler (Tipperary ).[ 54]
19 January – John Corcoran , 56, Gaelic games administrator, heart attack.[ 55]
23 January – Micheál McGeary, 68, Gaelic games journalist.[ 56]
25 January – The O'Donovan, 84, hereditary chief of the O'Donovan family.[ 57]
30 January – Peter Quinn , 90, Gaelic footballer (Mayo ).[ 58]
31 January – Terry Wogan , 77, broadcaster, cancer.[ 59]
2 February
3 February – Mark Farren , 33, footballer (Derry City F.C. ), cancer.[ 62]
7 February – Peter Turley, 33, Gaelic footballer (Down ).[ 63]
15 February – Paul Bannon , 59, footballer (Cork City F.C. ).[ 64]
17 February – George Redmond , 92, Dublin county planning manager, short illness.[ 65]
18 February – Jimmy Donnelly, 87, footballer (Belfast Celtic F.C. ).[ 66]
19 February – Din Joe Crowley , 70, Gaelic footballer (Kerry ).[ 67]
23 February – Johnny Murphy, 72, actor, respiratory failure.[ 68]
26 February – Henry Comerford, 79, actor and solicitor.[ 69]
28 February
7 March – Adrian Hardiman , 64, Supreme Court judge.[ 72]
10 March
14 March – Davy Walsh , 92, Irish international footballer .[ 75]
15 March
16 March – Brian Smyth , 91, Gaelic footballer (Meath ).[ 78]
19 March – Paddy Philpott , 79, hurler (Cork ).[ 79]
22 March – Eugene Treanor, Gaelic footballer (Down ).[ 80]
24 March – Brendan Sloan , 67, Gaelic footballer (Down ).[ 81]
26 March – Paddy O'Brien , 91, Gaelic footballer (Meath ).[ 82]
31 March – Ben Garrett, 21, soldier.[ 83]
3 April – Seán O'Shea, 88, public relations guru.[ 84]
10 April – Michael John Shinnick , 62, Chief Scout of Scouting Ireland .[ 85]
18 April – Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet , 99, British Army officer, aristocrat and media personality.[ 86]
20 April – James Downey, 82, Irish Independent Irish Times [ 87]
2 May – Basil Blackshaw , 84, artist.[ 88]
10 May – Jack Boothman , 80, President of the GAA .[ 89]
14 May – Christy O'Connor Snr , 91, professional golfer .[ 90]
16 May – Joey Maher, 82, world handball champion.[ 91]
17 May – Seán Ardagh , 68, politician, TD (1997-2011), cancer.[ 92]
20 May – Joe McDonagh , 62, Galway hurler and President of the GAA , short illness.[ 93]
4 June – Michael Keane, 69, journalist and newspaper editor, heart condition.[ 94]
10 June
13 June – Tony Byrne , 70, Irish international footballer .[ 97]
25 June – Séamus Power , 86, hurler (Waterford ).[ 98]
28 June – Freddie Gilroy , 80, Olympic bronze medal winner.[ 99]
July to December
Louis Stewart Anthony Foley Moscow Flyer Michel Déon 4 July – Séamus Mac Géidigh, 54, Raidió na Gaeltachta manager and journalist.[ 100]
5 July
8 July – Mícheál Ó Nualláin, 88, artist, illustrator and designer.[ 103]
20 July – Mary Canavan, 108, Ireland's oldest person, natural causes.[ 104]
24 July – Finbarr Flood, 77, chairman of the Labour Court.[ 105]
26 July
30 July – Paddy Lalor , 90, TD (1961-1981), Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (1969-1970), Minister for Industry and Commerce (1970-1973), Government Chief Whip (1977-1979), MEP (1979-1994).[ 108]
4 August – Michael Walsh , 50, handball player regarded as the greatest of all time, short illness.[ 109]
8 August – Edward Daly , 82, Roman Catholic priest and author.[ 110]
9 August – Pádraig Duggan, 67, musician, recurring illness.[ 111]
10 August – John Bennett , 82, hurler (Cork ).[ 112]
13 August – Liam Tuohy , 83, footballer (Shamrock Rovers ) and manager.[ 113]
20 August – Louis Stewart , 72, jazz guitarist.[ 114]
22 August – Milo Corcoran, 65, president of the Football Association of Ireland , short illness.[ 115]
24 August – Larry Higgins, 87, Gaelic footballer (Derry ).[ 116]
26 August – Peter Barry , 88, Fine Gael politician, short illness.[ 117]
29 August – Anne O'Brien , 60, former footballer and coach, short illness.[ 118]
3 September – Adrienne Rock Boucher, 51, model and former Miss Ireland.[ 119]
9 September – Ailish Sheehan, 23, rower, accident.[ 120]
15 September – Greg Maher , 49, former Gaelic footballer (Mayo ), long illness.[ 121]
25 September – Bertie O'Hanlon , 91, former rugby union player.[ 122]
28 September – Seamus Dunne , 86, former Irish international footballer .[ 123]
2 October – Bobby Molloy , 80, former Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats TD .[ 124]
13 October – Martin Naughton, 62, disability rights campaigner.[ 125]
16 October
18 October
20 October
21 October – Moscow Flyer , 22, National Hunt horse, colic.[ 132]
29 October – Gerry O'Reilly, former Gaelic footballer (Wicklow ).
4 November – Khalid Kelly , 48/49, Irish Muslim convert and at one time the leader of Al-Muhajiroun in Ireland.[ 133]
12 November – Joe McCarthy, 43, former Gaelic footballer (Cavan ).[ 134]
15 November
20 November – William Trevor , 88, author.[ 137]
23 November – Joe Lennon , 81, former Gaelic footballer (Down ).[ 138]
24 November – Jim Connors, former hurler (Wicklow ).[ 139]
3 December – Willie Casey , 84, former Gaelic footballer (Mayo ), short illness.[ 140]
7 December – Mick Roche , 73, former hurler (Tipperary ).[ 141]
10 December – John Montague , 87, poet, complications following surgery.[ 142]
14 December – Gillian Bowler , 64, businesswoman, illness.[ 143]
28 December
29 December – Aodán Mac Póilin , 68, Irish language activist, short illness.[ 146]
See also
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