Born in 1970

A selection from Wikipedia's '1970 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 11 January – The Sinn Féin party split into Provisional and Official wings over a disagreement on abstentionism.
• 29 March – Irish language pirate radio station Saor Raidió Chonamara began broadcasting.
• 21 April – The Alliance Party was founded in Northern Ireland.
• 6 May – Arms Crisis: The Minister for Finance, Charles Haughey, and the Minister for Agriculture, Neil Blaney, were asked to resign by the Taoiseach. He accused them of an attempted illegal importation of arms for use by the Provisional IRA.
• 4 June – Kevin Boland was expelled from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party.
• 2 July – Neil Blaney was cleared of arms conspiracy charges.
• 21 August – The Social Democratic and Labour Party was founded in Northern Ireland under the leadership of Gerry Fitt.
• 14 October – Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, recent survivors of the aborted Apollo 13 spaceflight to the moon, landed at Dublin Airport as part of a European tour with wives Marilyn Lovell and Mary Haise (Swigert was unmarried).

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