Born in 1961

A selection from Wikipedia's '1961 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 6 January – Lieutenant-General Seán Mac Eoin left Dublin for the Congo to take up his new post as General Commanding Officer of the United Nations.
• 9 April – The national census showed that County Cork's population had reached an all-time low, with just 330,000 (in the late 1950s it was 336,000).
• 10 June – President Éamon de Valera and his wife Sinéad greeted Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco at the presidential residence, Áras an Uachtaráin. It was the first official visit to Ireland by a head of state after it became an independent republic.
• 15 June – Prince Rainier and Princess Grace took tea in the Kelly homestead, near Newport, County Mayo from which the princess's grandfather, John Henry Kelly, left for America almost 100 years before.
• 4 October – 1961 Irish general election: The Fianna Fáil party under Seán Lemass retained most seats and formed a minority government when members of the 17th Dáil assembled on 11 October.
• 16 October – Cork Airport opened.
• 10 November – The Guinness ship Lady Gwendolen rammed and sank the Freshfield, anchored in fog on the River Mersey in Liverpool.
• 31 December – Ireland's first television channel, Telefís Éireann, commenced broadcasting as president de Valera inaugurated the new service. The station's first broadcast was a new year countdown with celebrations at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, relayed from the transmitter on Kippure mountain.

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