2000 in Ireland

The following lists events that happened during the year 2000 in Ireland.

Incumbents

3 February – The gangster John Gilligan was extradited from the UK to Ireland on drug trafficking and murder charges.
11 February – The British government suspended devolution in Northern Ireland.

10 April
* The Dublin Area Rapid Transit rail system was extended southwards from Bray to Greystones and northwards from Howth Junction to Malahide.
* The ambulance service regulator, the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, was established.
Spring – The American Clive Cussler's National Underwater and Marine Agency discovered the wreck of 190 kilometres west of Fastnet Rock.

5 May – The People in Need Trust held its seventh event.
6 May – The Provisional Irish Republican Army began decommissioning its weapons.
30 May – Devolution returned to Northern Ireland.

6 July – The Intoxicating Liquor Act, 2000 came into effect abolishing the so-called "holy hour" between 2 pm and 4 pm on Sundays when pubs had been forced to close their doors.

7 February – The Chester Beatty Library opened in its new premises in the grounds of Dublin Castle.
21 April – Release of film Nora.
31 October – Boyband Westlife scored their seventh straight UK number one, becoming the only artists in UK chart history to achieve this.
December – The quarterly cultural magazine The Dublin Review was launched by Brendan Barrington.
John Banville's novel Eclipse was published.
Anne Enright's novel What Are You Like? was published.

Shelbourne won the double of the League of Ireland Premier Division and the FAI Cup for the first time in their history.
They then knocked out Macedonian side Sloga Jugomagnat in the first round of the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League qualifiers. Their 1–0 win in Skopje was the first away win in a European tie by a League of Ireland side for eighteen years. Rosenborg of Norway knock Shelbourne out 4–2 on aggregate in the second qualifying round.