*I am posting this in the History forum because in the future, when cyber archaeologists are researching 2013, it will be the most relevant*
This is the Third Year I have made this thread.
For 2012: http://www.politics.ie/forum/history...ar-2012-a.html
For 2011: http://www.politics.ie/forum/history...what-year.html
Again, I ask you all to share your most memorable moment from both home and abroad.
At Home
14 January — A couple, including a former nurse, were found huddled together on the bedroom floor of a flat owned by Dublin City Council, having been dead for days. They died from hypothermia.
14 January — Music retailer HMV went out of business and thousands of people lost their jobs.
15 January — The Food Safety Authority of Ireland confirmed the presence of horse DNA in beef burger products on sale in supermarkets.
31 January — The High Court ruled that businessman David Hall did not have the legal standing to challenge the State's use of promissory notes to bail out Anglo Irish Bank and other financial institutions, though the ruling allowed for the case to be brought by a member of the Dáil.
5 February — A report into Ireland's Magdalene asylums found "significant" state collusion in the admission of thousands of "fallen women" into the institutions where they were abused and worked for nothing in conditions of slavery before they were shut down.
6–7 February — The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) was dramatically liquidated after the Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition passed emergency overnight legislation through the Oireachtas.
19 February — Taoiseach Enda Kenny delivered an emotional apology in Dáil Éireann on behalf of the State to the Magdalene Laundry survivors.
14 March — The Lowry Tapes, containing a telephone conversation between corrupt politician Michael Lowry and land agent Kevin Phelan, were broadcast in full on Tonight with Vincent Browne.
27 March — Meath East by-election: Helen McEntee of Fine Gael was elected to Dáil Éireann.
11 April — The Central Bank expressed regret over a James Joyce misquote on a new commemorative €10 coin.
19 April — The inquest into the death of Savita Halappanavar returned a verdict of "medical misadventure."
15 May — During an appearance on the television programme, Prime Time, Minister Alan Shatter revealed personal information about political opponent Mick Wallace.28 May — Ireland's latest crèche scandal featured revelations of children being strapped into chairs, shouted at, manhandled and force-fed.
31 May — Ireland was again declared a tax haven by the United States, a response provoked by a diplomatic letter claiming it was not.
19 June — Independent Teachta Dála Clare Daly, speaking in Dáil Éireann, criticised the media and the government for their "slobbering" over the Obama family during their visit to Dublin.
24 June - The Irish Independent newspaper released secret recordings containing recorded telephone conversations between Anglo Irish Bank staff.
11 July — Fine Gael Teachta Dála Tom Barry, who had been drinking in the Dáil bar, provoked international headlines when he pulled party colleague Áine Collins onto his lap on live television during a late-night Dáil debate.
15 July — Senator David Norris told Seanad Éireann that Fine Gael TD Regina Doherty was "talking through her fanny"
August 30 – Seamus Heaney, Irish Nobel poet dies.
11 September — Irish football team manager Giovanni Trapattoni resigned following successive World Cup 2014 qualifier defeats.
4 October — Two constitutional referendums were held. The Thirty-second Amendment Bill proposed abolishing Seanad Éireann, and was rejected, while the Thirty-third Amendment Bill proposed the establishment of a Court of Appeal to sit between the High Court and the Supreme Court, and was approved by voters.
15 October — Crime boss John Gilligan was released from prison after 17 years behind bars.
15 October — The 2014 Budget was announced.
5 November — The Football Association of Ireland announced that Martin O'Neill would replace Giovanni Trapattoni as manager of the Irish football team, with former team captain Roy Keane as his assistant.
12 November — Former Fianna Fáil senator Francis O'Brien was sent to prison for two years for attempting to extort €100,000 from a veterinary inspector.
3 December — The Smithwick Tribunal inquiry into the 1989 Jonesborough ambush found that members of the Garda Síochána had colluded with the IRA in the shooting of twoRUC officers as they crossed the Irish border.
3 December — Colm Keaveney, TD, former Labour Party chairman, joins the Fianna Fáil party.
4 December — Forbes magazine ranked Ireland the best place in the world for business and described the country as having an "extremely pro-business environment".
15 December - Enda Kenny Addresses the Nation to Mark the End of the Bailout.
Abroad
January 11 – The French military begins a five-month intervention into the Northern Mali conflict, targeting the militantIslamist Ansar Dine group.
February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,491 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century.
February 28 – Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294.
March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
March 25 – The European Union agrees to a €10 billion economic bailout for Cyprus.
April 15 – Two bombs explode at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others.
April 24 – An eight-story commercial building collapses in Savar Upazila near the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, leaving 1,129 dead.
June 6 – American Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged by a US government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.
July 1 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
July 3 – Amid mass protests across Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi is deposed in a military coup d'état, leading to widespread violence.
July 22 – Prince George of Cambridge is born.
September 21 – al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, killing at least 62 civilians and wounding over 170.
November 8 – Typhoon Haiyan "Yolanda", one of the strongest tropical cyclones on record, hits the Philippines and Vietnam, causing devastation with at least 6,045 dead.
November 24 – Iran agrees to limit their nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief.
December 5 – Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel laureate dies.
December 14 – Chinese spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon since 1976.
November - December -- Ukraine protests continue over decision of government to look towards Russia at the expense of the EU.
So, there ya have it. What were the most memorable?