Updated / Tuesday, 6 Apr 2021
14:37
Reeling in the Years recalls the hits and the headlines of 2005, when Cork became the European City of Culture, Waterford welcomed the Tall Ships, the Dublin suburb of Dundrum got a new shopping centre.
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Watch: RTÉ News reports as Dundrum Shopping Centre opens on 3 March 2005 (via RTÉ Archives)
Abroad, it was the year of the Live 8 concerts and campaign, the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans, the death of Pope John Paul II and the 7/7 bomb attacks in London.