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January 1 - The VECs of the towns of Bray , Drogheda , Sligo , Tralee and Wexford are abolished.

January 9 - British Secretary Of State For Northern Ireland , Mo Mowlam , visits Loyalist prisoners in the Maze prison. Afterwards loyalists agree to attend the Stormont talks.

January 14 - The Planning Tribunal opens in Dublin Castle .

February 20 - Sinn Féin is excluded from the Northern Ireland talks for two weeks. Protests in Belfast follow.

February 27 - Republic Of Ireland qualifies for entry into the Economic And Monetary Union Of The European Union .

February 28 - the actor and comedian Dermot Morgan dies suddenly in London .

March 15 - Former Fine Gael Minister Hugh Coveney dies in a fall from a cliff in County Cork .

and Irish governments and all the political parties in the Northern Ireland (except the Democratic Unionist Party sign the Belfast Agreement .

May 7 - The Irish under-16 Soccer team wins the European Championship.

May 19 - John Hume and David Trimble join U2 on stage in Belfast as they make a direct appeal to young voters in Northern Ireland to vote 'yes' in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement .

May 22 - The Good Friday Agreement is endorsed in a referendum by people North and South of the border.

June 25 - The people of Northern Ireland go to the polls to elect a new Assembly.

August 6 - Olympic gold medalist Michelle De Bruin is banned from competition for four years for tampering with a drug test.

August 15 - 29 people die in a Bomb Explosion near the centre of Omagh , County Tyrone , caused by the Real IRA .

September 3 - President Clinton of the United States visits Omagh and views the bomb damage.

September 20 - TV3 goes on the air.

October 16 - John Hume and David Trimble are announced as the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize .

November 30 - Unemployment falls by 20% with the number of people in work rising by 100,000.

December 10 - John Hume and David Trimble are presented with the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo , Norway .

December 12 - Members of the Labour Party and Democratic Left agree to merge

December 24 - Gay Byrne broadcasts his final radio show from St. Stephen's Green.

December 31 - The Punt is traded for the last time as the Euro currency is launched.

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