Born in 1966

A selection from Wikipedia's '1966 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 13 February – The Bishop of Clonfert, Thomas Ryan, protested against the content of The Late Late Show because an audience member, Eileen Fox, told host Gay Byrne that she wore no nightie on her wedding night.
• 8 March – Nelson's Pillar in O'Connell Street in Dublin was blown up, probably by former Irish Republican Army volunteers marking this year's 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
• 10 April – Celebrations took place to mark the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1916. Nine hundred survivors of the rising heard the reading of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and President Éamon de Valera took the salute at a military parade.
• 11 April – President De Valera opened the Garden of Remembrance in Parnell Square in Dublin.
• 1 June – In the 1966 presidential election, the Fianna Fáil party candidate Éamon de Valera was elected to a second term in office when he beat Fine Gael party candidate Tom O'Higgins by 10,500 votes, less than one percent of the ballot (0.97%).
• July 25 – US congressman Richard Nixon visited Dublin in connection with the establishment of a petrochemical company near the Nitrigin Éireann Teoranta fertiliser factory in Arklow, County Wicklow. He met the taoiseach, Seán Lemass and visited President de Valera at Áras an Uachtaráin.
• 21 September – Allied Irish Banks was founded by the amalgamation of the Munster and Leinster Bank, Provincial Bank of Ireland, and Royal Bank of Ireland.
• 21 October – An anti-apartheid demonstration took place outside the National Stadium during a visit by the South African Amateur Boxing Team.

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