JANUARY

  • Padge Berry, retired trainer, 90
  • Frank Kiernan, point-to-point trainer
  • John O’Connor, point-to-point rider, 20
  • Jack Sweetman, racegoer, 93
  • Nicholas Coen, racegoer, 33

    • FEBRUARY

  • Michael Williamson, former valet
  • John Shortt, former jockey, 53
  • Eric Tyner, pony racing administrator, 94

    • MARCH

  • Finbarr Slattery, retired Killarney Racecourse manager, 92
  • James O’Keeffe, breeder
  • Maureen Haughey, owner and breeder, 91

    • APRIL

  • Jack O’Shea, employee with John Oxx
  • Johnny Roe, former champion jockey, 79
  • James McNeile, British point-to-point rider, 57

    • MAY

  • Owen O’Sullivan, Cork owner and breeder
  • Tony Power, former racing correspondent, 89

    • JUNE

  • David Nicholls, trainer, 61

    • JULY

  • Tommy Carberry, former jockey and trainer, 75
  • Raymond Gallagher, former racing correspondent, 79
  • Martin Moloney, former champion jockey, 91
  • Tom O’Dwyer, retired trainer
  • Mercy Rimell, retired trainer, 98

    • AUGUST

  • Ann Potts, owner
  • James Osborne, former Punchestown chairman, 68

    • SEPTEMBER

  • John Ross, former vice-chairman of Punchestown
  • David Blackburn, owner of Imperial Call
  • Ryan Farnham ‘Buster’ Parnell, former champion jockey, 83
  • Geoff Wragg, retired trainer
  • Tom Ronan, breeder

    • OCTOBER

  • Mary Reveley, retired trainer, 76
  • Liam Cosgrave, racegoer and former Taoiseach, 97

    • NOVEMBER

  • John Purfield, breeder and Bellewstown official
  • Alan Potts, owner, 80
  • Robert McCoubrey, owner and bookmaker, 69
  • William Patton, former trainer and rider
  • Peggy Hagan, owner of Balnaslow, 89
  • Maria O’Grady, wife of trainer Edward O’Grady, 54
  • Marquesa de Moratalla, owner-breeder, 87
  • Peter Murray-Hayden, equine veterinary surgeon, 82

    • DECEMBER

  • Peter Walwyn, retired trainer, 84
  • Ned Morrissey, owner-breeder, 91
  • Stevie Hayden, owner-breeder, 50
  • Noel O’Brien, senior NH handicapper, 57
  • Beryl Murless, wife of trainer Stuart Murless
  • Anne Grubb, breeder of Sandford Lad