page_title: 2018 in Ireland
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in Ireland / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Social Security Administration
context_page_description: Events during the year 2018 in Ireland.
context_section_description: 4 August – Tommy Peoples, 70, fiddler.
  5 August – Matthew Sweeney, 65, poet, motor neurone disease.
  6 August
  Margaret Heckler, 87, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Ireland (1986–1989), cardiac arrest.
  Seán Cromien, 89, former Secretary-General of the Department of Finance, long illness.
  7 August
  Paddy Dolan, Gaelic footballer, (Leitrim), short illness.
  Nan Joyce, 78, human rights activist (Irish Travellers).
  12 August – Michael O'Flaherty, 86, businessman.
  21 August – Michael O'Shea, 37, Gaelic footballer (Clare), cancer.
  23 August – Mick O'Toole, 86, racehorse trainer (Dickens Hill).
  25 August – Con Cooney, 84, hurler (Carrigaline, Fermoy, Cork).
  31 August – Philip Short, 58, chess player.
caption: Margaret Heckler
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