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January 24 - The former Minister for JusticeRay Burke is jailed for six months for tax evasion, as a result of legislation he introduced. He is the first Cabinet minister to be jailed as a result of the tribunals of inquiry.
February 17 - Seven people are detained by Gardaí for suspected activities in relation to the bank heist in Belfast in December 2004. £2.3 million sterling is seized in County Cork.
March 11 - The Irish Sugar Company factory in Carlow closes for good with the loss of several hundred jobs. The factory was Ireland's oldest sugar factory.
March 27 - Cian O'Connor is stripped of his Olympic gold medal after the sports ruling body find that his horse, Waterford Crystal had banned substances in its system during the Olympic Games in 2004.
April
April 2 - There is prayer, mourning and remembrance in honour of Pope John Paul II following his death in Rome at 20:37 Irish time.
April 16 - The annual congress of the Gaelic Athletic Association votes to open up Croke Park and allow soccer and rugby to be played there under certain circumstances.
May 14 - PresidentMary McAleese's official state car is involved in a minor road accident in County Meath. The President and her driver escape injury.
May 23 - Five schoolgirls die and many other people are injured in a collision involving a crowded Bus Éireann school bus and two other vehicles in Co Meath.
July 16 - Irish student, Tara Whelan (17) and a British holidaymaker were among five people killed in the popular tourist resort of Kuşadası, in Turkey.
July 28 - In what has been described as an "historic" day the Provisional Irish Republican Army ends its armed campaign and orders all its units to dump arms. The organisation also orders its members not to engage in any other activities of any kind.
July 29 - 45-year-old Limerick woman, Dolores McNamara, scoops €115 million after winning the Euromillions rollover jackpot prize. It is Europe's largest ever lottery jackpot.
September 15 - The population of Ireland officially has the highest population since 1861. The increase is owed to immigration by Irish people abroad and immigrants from Europe and Asia.
September 19 - Irish Ferries offers voluntary redundancy packages to its 543 seafaring workers.
October 18 Dr Tiede Herrema returns to the city of Limerick from which he was kidnapped 30 year ago in a high profile case. Dr Herrema presents his personal papers relating to the issue to the University of Limerick Library.
October 20 - The abducted journalist Rory Carroll is released unharmed after being kidnapped in Iraq on the previous day.
October 22 - On the second day of the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis in Killarney, news breaks that the former party member and TD, Liam Lawlor, is killed in a car accident in Moscow.
November 1 - The Government launches the biggest national transport plan in the history of the state. The strategy, known as Transport 21, will allow for €34.4 million to be spent on roads, rail and the Dublin metro over a ten year period.
November 18 - Cork City FC win the League of Ireland for the second time in their history in front of a capacity crowd at Turners Cross Stadium.
November 18 - Roy Keane sensationally leaves Manchester United in a decision that was said to be by mutual consent.
November 24 - Abbas Boutrab becomes the first non republican or loyalist to be convicted in the diplock courts of Northern Ireland - he is convinced of having information that could be used to bomb an airliner.
December 8 - A car bomb heading to Blanchardstown is intercepted by Gardaí and members of Special Branch at the M50 Westlink Toll Bridge, man was arrested and he is believed to be connected to the continunity IRA
Arts and literature
Colm Tóibín is awarded the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Award for his novel The Master.
22 October - Liam Lawlor, Fianna Fáil politician, resigned following a finding that he had failed to co-operate with a planning irregularities investigation (b.1944).
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