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Murder of Ashling Murphy. Ashling Murphy (6 July 1998 – 12 January 2022) was an Irish primary school teacher, traditional Irish musician and camogie player who was murdered in January 2022 while walking on the towpath of the Grand Canal at Cappincur, outside Tullamore, County Offaly. Her death gave rise to widespread public grief, as well as ...
c. 16,000 BC. During the Last Glacial Maximum, Ireland is covered in ice sheets. c. 12,000 BC. A narrow channel forms between Prehistoric Ireland and southwest Scotland [1] c. 10,000 BC. Carbon-dating on bear bones indicate the presence of Paleolithic people in County Clare. [2] c. 8000 BC.
In her book Yesterday's Children, Cockell discusses what she describes as past life memories of life as Mary Sutton in early-20th century Ireland.The book chronicles Cockell's research into Sutton's life and her subsequent reunion with Sutton's children, some of whom accepted Cockell as the reincarnation of their mother and all of whom accepted her memories as being those of their mother.
The Department of Public Health expressed concern over increases in COVID-19 transmission linked to social gatherings involving the student population in the mid-west region. [85] 4 February. The total number of COVID-19 cases in Ireland surpassed 200,000 cases, with over half confirmed in 2021.
The Government of Ireland Act 1920 partitioned the island of Ireland into two separate jurisdictions, Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, both devolved regions of the United Kingdom. This partition of Ireland was confirmed when the Parliament of Northern Ireland exercised its right in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 to opt ...
The building pictured on the morning after the fire. The burning of the British Embassy in Dublin happened on 2 February 1972 at 39 Merrion Square. [1] [2] This occurred during demonstrations outside the chancery by a very large and angry crowd (estimates vary between 20,000 and 100,000 people), following the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry on 30 January 1972, when the British Army's Parachute ...
1 January – With odds of a million to one, Annmarie Byrne-Ryan gave birth to identical triplets at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. [ 1 ] 2 January – Tánaiste Simon Coveney and NI Secretary Julian Smith held meetings with the five main Stormont parties in an effort to restore devolved government.
Killing of David Byrne. The Irish criminal David Byrne was shot dead on 5 February 2016 at the Regency Hotel in Whitehall, Dublin. [1] It is believed by the Garda Síochána that Daniel Kinahan, the son of Christy Kinahan, was the intended target, but had left early. [2][3][4]