See also:
2002 in Ireland,
other events of 2003,
2004 in Ireland and the
list of 'years in Ireland'.
Events
Arts and literature
Sports
Births
Deaths
- January 21 Tony O'Malley, artist and painter
- January 23 Aodhagán Brioscú, last surviving founder of Irish cultural organisation Gael Linn
- February 25 - Tom O'Higgins, former Irish Chief Justice and twice defeated Irish presidential candidate
- April 2 - Pat Leavy, actress who played Hannah Finnegan in the Radio Telifís Éireann soap opera Fair City, died after being taken ill on set
- July 16 - Captain James Kelly, former Irish Army officer cleared of attempting to import arms for the IRA in the Arms Trial in 1970
- July 17 - Eamonn Leahy, 46 year old top barrister and husband of government Chief Whip Mary Hanafin
- July 28 - Lady Valerie Goulding, former Senator and campaigner for the disabled
- August 11 - Kieran Kelly, jump jockey after a racing accident
- August 15 - Bishop Donal Lamont Irish born Rhodesian Catholic bishop and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
- September 20 - Liam Tobin, longtime Árd Rúnaí Roinn na Gaeltachta and Irish language campaigner
- September 24 - Tomás MacGabhann, Trade Unionist and Irish language activist
- October 7 - Frank Roe, former President of the Circuit Court
- December 30 - Archbishop Michael Courtney Papal Nuncio to Burundi who assassinated