page_title: 2011 in Ireland
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 in Ireland / Events / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Occupiers Camp on Dame Street, Dublin, 19th of December 2011
context_page_description: Events during the year 2011 in Ireland.
context_section_description: 8 October – Occupy Dame Street began this afternoon.
  11 October – Ireland's football team reached the play-offs of the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifiers.
  11 October – two crosses, including the cross containing the relics of the true cross, were stolen in a masked raid on Holy Cross Abbey.
  24 October – Ireland was struck by flash floods including heavy torrential rain in Dublin with up to 90mm of rain falling during six hours in the evening. One off-duty Garda, Ciarán Jones was swept off a bridge and killed while helping motorists in Wicklow.
  27 October – A presidential election and two constitutional referendums were held.
caption: The entrance to the Occupy Dame Street "Tent Town" on 19 December 2011
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