page_title: 2010 in Ireland
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 in Ireland / Events / March
caption_attribution_description: Português: O ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros de Timor-Leste José Ramos Horta.
context_page_description: This is a summary of 2010 in Ireland.
context_section_description: 8 March – Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen resigns from politics after seeking medical advice.
  8 March – President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta begins his two-day first official state visit to Ireland by meeting Taoiseach Brian Cowen, urging the country to continue providing economic support as a priority nation and receiving an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin.
  9 March – seven people are arrested, five in Waterford and two in Cork, over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  9 March – Dublin's Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children's Hospital in Tallaght blames "systemic and process failures" for more than 57,000 X-rays taken between 2005 and 2009 not being reviewed by medical professionals and admits at least two patients received incorrect treatment, one of whom has since died and the other who is receiving cancer treatment.
  9 March – a national strike by taxi drivers leads to work stoppages at the country's three main airports, closes Dublin's O'Connell Street completely and blocks other streets as the High Court orders protesters to leave their sit-in at Commission for Taxi Regulation headquarters.
  18 March – former Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Sean FitzPatrick is arrested at his home and has it searched under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 in Greystones, County Wicklow.
  Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland:
  20 March – Pope Benedict XVI's special pastoral letter to Irish Catholics on the issue is published by the Vatican.
  21 March – a man confronts Bishop of Kerry Dr Bill Murphy on the pulpit in the middle of the Gospel at St Mary's Cathedral, Killarney, while protesters walk out during Mass at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin.
  23 March – Taoiseach Brian Cowen reshuffles his cabinet.
  25 March – a landmark legal ruling allows Limerick pubs to open on 2 April (Good Friday) for the first time anywhere in the history of the state to accommodate fans of Munster and Leinster on the day they play a Celtic League rugby union match in Thomond Park.
  29 March – the new Limerick to Galway rail line is officially launched, reopening the rail links between the two cities for the first time in 34 years.
caption: José Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor
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