Born in 2008

A selection from Wikipedia's '2008 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

• 2 January – The Burlington Hotel in Dublin closed after 36 years in business with the loss of 400 jobs.
• 12 March – Libertas lobby group launched a campaign called Facts, not politics which advocated a No vote in the Treaty of Lisbon referendum.
• 20 May – The television puppet Dustin the Turkey failed to qualify for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 after being knocked out at the first semi-finals stage.
• 30 May – The international Convention on Cluster Munitions was adopted at the end of a ten-day diplomatic conference in Croke Park, Dublin.
• 11–13 July – The Oxegen 2008 music festival took place at Punchestown Racecourse in County Kildare.
• 31 July – Heavy rainfall brought flash floods to Newcastle West in County Limerick and Mallow, County Cork.
• 2 October – For the first time in its history since 1922, Seanad Éireann (the Irish Senate) began debate of a bill after midnight, the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 which it passed at 8 am.
• 6 December – 2008 Irish pork crisis: All Irish pork products were recalled following an announcement that animal feed used since 1 September might contain between 80 and 200 more times dioxins than the recognised safety limit.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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