page_title: 2017 in Ireland
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 in Ireland / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave of Ireland in the Oval Office
context_page_description: Events during the year 2017 in Ireland.
context_section_description: 4 October – Liam Cosgrave, 97, politician, Taoiseach (1973–77).
  7 October – Martin Crotty, 71, barrister, sailor and designer, short illness.
  10 October
  Jackie O'Hara, Gaelic footballer (Sligo).
  Neill O’Neill, 36, managing editor (The Mayo News).
  15 October – Sean Hughes, 51, comedian, writer and actor, cirrhosis of the liver.
  18 October – Eamonn Campbell, 70, musician (The Dubliners).
  21 October – Pat Shovelin, 41, Gaelic football coach, cancer.
  23 October – Joe Corcoran, 77, Gaelic footballer (Mayo).
  25 October – Fayonagh, 6, racehorse, euthanised following a leg break.
  26 October – Simon Fitzmaurice, 43, filmmaker, motor neuron disease.
  29 October – Paddy Devlin, Gaelic football referee.
caption: Liam Cosgrave
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