page_title: 2016 in Ireland
section_title: July to December
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in Ireland / Deaths / July to December
caption_attribution_description: English: Louis Stewart, playing acostic guitar
context_page_description: Events during the year 2016 in Ireland.
context_section_description: 4 July – Séamus Mac Géidigh, 54, Raidió na Gaeltachta manager and journalist.
  5 July
  Mick Finucane, 93, Gaelic footballer (Kerry), short illness.
  Phonsie O'Brien, 86, jockey and racehorse trainer.
  8 July – Mícheál Ó Nualláin, 88, artist, illustrator and designer.
  20 July – Mary Canavan, 108, Ireland's oldest person, natural causes.
  24 July – Finbarr Flood, 77, chairman of the Labour Court.
  26 July
  John Thomas McNamara, 41, jockey, complications following a broken neck.
  Jerry Molyneaux, 60, hurling coach and Gaelic games administrator.
  30 July – Paddy Lalor, 90, government minister.
  4 August – Michael Walsh, 50, handball player regarded as the greatest of all time, short illness.
  8 August – Edward Daly, 82, Roman Catholic priest and author.
  9 August – Pádraig Duggan, 67, musician, recurring illness.
  10 August – John Bennett, 82, hurler (Cork).
  13 August – Liam Tuohy, 83, footballer (Shamrock Rovers) and manager.
  20 August – Louis Stewart, 72, jazz guitarist.
  22 August – Milo Corcoran, 65, president of the Football Association of Ireland, short illness.
  24 August – Larry Higgins, 87, Gaelic footballer (Derry).
  26 August – Peter Barry, 88, Fine Gael politician, short illness.
  29 August – Anne O'Brien, 60, former footballer and coach, short illness.
  3 September – Adrienne Rock Boucher, 51, model and former Miss Ireland.
  9 September – Ailish Sheehan, 23, rower, accident.
  15 September – Greg Maher, 49, former Gaelic footballer (Mayo), long illness.
  25 September – Bertie O'Hanlon, 91, former rugby union player.
  28 September – Seamus Dunne, 86, former Irish international footballer.
  2 October – Bobby Molloy, 80, former Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats TD.
  13 October – Martin Naughton, 62, disability rights campaigner.
  16 October
  Anthony Foley, 42, head coach of Munster Rugby.
  Mickey Byrne, 93, former hurler (Tipperary).
  18 October
  Paddy Beisty, 90, former Gaelic footballer (Roscommon).
  Francis Flood, 86, horse trainer.
  20 October
  Fergus O'Brien, 86, former Fine Gael politician.
  Pat Flynn, former hurler (Waterford), heart attack.
  21 October – Moscow Flyer, 22, National Hunt horse, colic.
  29 October – Gerry O'Reilly, former Gaelic footballer (Wicklow).
  4 November – Khalid Kelly, 48/49, Irish Muslim convert and at one time the leader of Al-Muhajiroun in Ireland.
  12 November – Joe McCarthy, 43, former Gaelic footballer (Cavan).
  15 November
  Owen Gribbin, 90, former Gaelic footballer (Derry).
  Ray Brady, 79, former Irish international footballer.
  20 November – William Trevor, 88, author.
  23 November – Joe Lennon, 81, former Gaelic footballer (Down).
  24 November – Jim Connors, former hurler (Wicklow).
  3 December – Willie Casey, 84, former Gaelic footballer (Mayo), short illness.
  7 December – Mick Roche, 73, former hurler (Tipperary).
  10 December – John Montague, 87, poet, complications following surgery.
  14 December – Gillian Bowler, 64, businesswoman, illness.
  28 December
  Anthony Cronin, 88, poet and arts activist.
  Michel Déon, 97, French novelist who lived and died in Galway
  29 December – Aodán Mac Póilin, 68, Irish language activist, short illness.
caption: Louis Stewart
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