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• Peter Sutherland, former Attorney General of Ireland, served as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Sutherland became Director-General of the WTO on 1 January 1995. He was the first Director-General of WTO which commenced to deal with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near-global level.^[1]

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• Ireland clinched a long-awaited deal with European Central Bank (ECB) on 7 February 2013 to ease the burden of its bank debts, sending its borrowing costs falling to pre-crisis levels and bolstering its chances of ending its reliance on EU-IMF loans this year.^[2]

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• Ireland celebrated their astonishing 2011 Cricket World Cup victory over England. Irish batsman Kevin O'Brien's crashing century, fastest ever in the World Cup (as of this writing), conjured the greatest victory in Ireland's cricket history. Kevin's innings of 113 from 63 balls was a sensational performance while he completed his century in fifty balls. Underdogs Ireland beat the experienced England team by three wickets while chasing 328 runs for the famous victory.^[3]

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• The Irish oil exploration firm Providence Resources announced on 15 March 2012 that they have found country's first ever commercial oil off the coast of County Cork, providing a welcome boost to the country's economy.^[4]

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• In a world first, scientists have studied the DNA of giant squid from across the globe to discover that they all belong to the same species. The genetic diversity of giant squid (Architeuthis) is surprisingly low and indeed far lower than that of other marine species studied to date. The findings were published on 20 March 2013 in the British journal the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by an international team including researcher from Ireland.^[5]

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• Dana, an Irish singer, won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest for the song “All Kinds Of Everything”. The final took place on March 21, 1970 in Amsterdam. It was Ireland's first-of many- victories in the history of the Song Contest.^[6]

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• Smoking was banned in workplaces in Ireland since 29 March 2004.

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• A successful operation to separate conjoined twins, Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf from Cork, Ireland, was completed at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. They were separated by surgeons in a 14-hour operation on April 7, 2010 that featured 20 doctors and specialist nurses led by Cork-born professor Dr Edward Kiely.^[7]

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• On 12 April 2013, Ireland was granted seven more years to pay their bailout loans from the European Union, easing the burden on its economy and paving the way for a quicker return to sustainable growth.^[8]

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• Singer Johnny Logan won the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 representing Ireland for the song What's Another Year. The final was held on 19 April 1980 in The Netherlands.^[9]

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• Irish musician-singer Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 for the song Rock 'n' Roll Kids. It was the first time that the Eurovision Song Contest had been won by the same country in three consecutive years.^[10]

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• Irish singer Linda Martin won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992 with the song Why Me. The contest was held on 9 May 1992 in Malmö, Sweden.^[11]
• Irish singer Johnny Logan won the 1987 Eurovision Song Contest for the song Hold Me Now. This was the second time that Johnny won the contest representing Ireland.^[12]

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• Irish singer Niamh Kavanagh won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1993 for the song In Your Eyes. It was Ireland's second consecutive Eurovision win.^[13]

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• Irish singer Eimear Quinn won the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest for the song The Voice. It was Ireland's seventh Eurovision victory.^[14]

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• Emma Donoghue, an Irish-Canadian novelist, won the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2011 for her novel “Room”. In this novel, Ms. Emma told a story from the perspective of a five-year-boy who is being held confined in a small room along with his mother.

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• The earliest surviving complete census of Ireland, conducted in 1901, is made available online for the first time on June 3, 2010. It revealed details on the life of famous Irish people including writers and politicians.^[15]

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• Colum McCann, an Irish writer, was presented The International Impac Dublin Literary Award, world’s richest literary prize, on June 15, 2011. McCann won the award with his sixth novel “Let The Great World Spin”.^[16]

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• Team Hermes from Ireland won the top honor in the Software Design competition of the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup, world’s premier student technology competition, honoring student innovations that address global problems. The team designed a device that plugs into a car and monitors dangerous driving behavior and road conditions, providing instant feedback to both the driver and the car owner.^[17]

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• Irish actor Michael Fassbender won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival on September 10, 2011. The prize was awarded for his performance as a sex-addicted New Yorker in Steve McQueen’s troubling drama Shame.^[18]

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• Sean MacBride from Ireland, who retired in September 1974 as Chairman of Amnesty International's International Executive Cornmittee, was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 8 October 1974 in recognition of his lifelong work for human rights.^[19]

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• Irish writer Anne Enright won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, one of the literary world's most prestigious awards, for her novel The Gathering. The award, which honors the best fiction written in English by an author from the UK, Ireland or the Commonwealth, was handed out on 16 October 2007.^[20]

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• Veteran Irish journalist Gene Kerrigan won the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year for his novel The Rage on 18 October 2012.^[21]

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• The analogue television service in the Republic of Ireland was switched off on 24 October 2012, replaced by a digital signal in line with the rest of Europe.^[22]

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• Mary McAleese, second female President of Ireland, was first elected president and assumed office on 11 November 1997. She again won a second term, without a contest, in 2004.^[23]

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• Ireland was elected on the United Nations Human Rights Council on 12 November 2012 for the first time for a three-year term. The council was created by the UN General Assembly in 2006 as the main human rights body of the UN.^[24]

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• Mary Robinson, an Irish politician, served as the first female President of Ireland from December 3, 1990 to September 12, 1997.

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• Rosanna Davison of Ireland won the 53rd Miss World pageant held on December 6, 2003. Rosanna was the first ever Irish woman to win the Miss World title.^[25]

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