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21 April – Carphone Warehouse confirmed its closure of all 80 stores in the Republic of Ireland with 486 jobs. 22 April An outbreak of at least 70 COVID-19 cases was confirmed at Intel's construction site in Leixlip, County Kildare. Gardaí made a direct appeal to a 14-year-old girl missing from County Louth to contact them.
13 April – Craig Breen, 33, rally driver, car crash. 14 April – Mark Sheehan, 46, singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. 18 April – Colm Murphy, 70, Irish republican and convicted arms trafficker (Omagh bombing), degenerative lung disease. 22 April Mick Loftus, 93, Gaelic footballer (Mayo senior team), referee and GAA president.
The Constitution of Ireland comes into force, replacing the Irish Free State with a new state called "Éire", or, in the English language, "Ireland" 1949: 18 April: The Republic of Ireland Act abolishes the statutory functions of the British monarch in relation to Ireland and confers them on the President of Ireland. 1955: 14 December
The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement (Irish: Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta or Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste; Ulster Scots: Guid Friday Greeance or Bilfawst Greeance) is a pair of agreements signed on 10 April, Good Friday, 1998, that ended most of the violence of the Troubles, an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s.
13 February – A 37-year-old woman was charged with the murder of her six-year-old son who was found unresponsive in a car in County Waterford. [26] 16 February – Gardaí seized 546 kg of crystal methamphetamine worth €32.8 million at Cork Port. The quantity seized was by far the largest ever captured in Ireland.
2 March. The majority of Google 's 8,000 staff and contractors in Ireland were told to work from home after a member of staff reported flu-like symptoms. [57] Tourism authorities announce that one of the largest annual events, the 2020 Dublin St Patricks Day Parade, is cancelled. [58] 3 March.
The Northern Ireland peace process includes the events leading up to the 1994 Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) ceasefire, the end of most of the violence of the Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, and subsequent political developments. [1] [2]