Editing 2000 in Ireland (section)

==Deaths==
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===January to June===
[[File:Francis Stuart.jpg|thumb|120px|right|upright|[[Francis Stuart]]]]
[[File:Memorial statue To Frank Patterson Clonmel.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[Frank Patterson]] (statue)]]
* [[15 January]] – [[Alf Ringstead]], footballer (b. 1927)
* [[28 January]] – [[Tony Doyle (actor)|Tony Doyle]], actor (b. 1942)
* [[1 February]] – [[Patrick Shanahan (politician)|Patrick Shanahan]], [[Fianna Fáil]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] (b. 1908)
* [[2 February]] – [[Francis Stuart]], writer (b. 1902)
* [[13 February]] – [[F. X. Martin]], priest and historian (b. 1922)
* [[25 February]] – [[Tom McEllistrim (1926–2000)|Tom McEllistrim]], [[Fianna Fáil]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] (b. 1926)
* [[6 March]] – [[Jonathan Philbin Bowman]], journalist and radio presenter (b. 1969)
* [[20 April]] – [[Death of John Carthy|John Carthy]], shot dead by the [[Garda Síochána]] (b. 1972)
* [[7 June]] – [[Mona Tyndall]], missionary sister and development worker (b. 1921)
* [[10 June]] – [[Frank Patterson]], tenor (b. 1938)

===July to December===
* [[10 July]] – [[Denis O'Conor Don]], hereditary chief of the [[O'Conor Don]] sept (b. 1912)
* [[14 August]] – [[John Boland (Fine Gael politician)|John Boland]], senior [[Fine Gael]] politician (b. 1944)
* [[18 October]] – [[James Gill (Irish cricketer)|James Gill]], cricketer (b. 1911)
* [[8 November]] – [[Brian Boydell]], composer, professor of music at [[Trinity College Dublin]] (b. 1917)
* [[18 November]] – [[Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh]], [[physicist]] (b. 1933)
* [[21 November]] – [[Paddy Flanagan]], cyclist (b. 1941)
* [[26 November]] – [[Paddy Donegan]], former [[Fine Gael]] [[Teachta Dála|TD]] and Cabinet Minister (b. 1923)
* [[15 December]] – [[Paddy Barry (Sarsfield's)|Paddy Barry]], [[Cork GAA|Cork]] hurler (b. 1928)