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In the 2004 Olympics, this Show Jumper is stripped of a gold medal after his horse is found to have taken performance enhancing drugs.
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Cian O'Connor
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Riots break out at the Abbey Theatre after the word 'shift' is uttered during the opening night of this play by JM Synge.
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Playboy of the western world
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And again after this play by Sean O'Casey opened in 1926.
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The plough and the stars
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This tribunal discovers huge levels of political corruption,contributing to the resignation of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern
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Mahon Tribunal
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This firebrand preacher denounces Pope John Paul II as anti-Christ when he addresses the European parliament.
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Ian Paisley
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This future Taoiseach, at the time a cabinet minister, allegedly attempts to import arms for the IRA in 1970
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Charles Haughey
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A controlled explosion carried out by the Irish Army causes more damage than the explosion caused by the IRA when they destroyed this monument in Dublin's O'Connell Street.
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Nelson's Pillar
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In 2014 the mayor of Dublin claims his constituents have asked Obama to intervene after the controversial cancellation of concerts involving this country star.
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Garth Brooks
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This WW2 era leader signs Hitler's book of condolences in order to maintain Ireland's symbolic neutrality.
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Eamon de Valera
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Eoin O'Duffy leads this short-lived fascist group.
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Blueshirts
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Thousands protest Ireland's abortion laws after this Indian dentist is refused an abortion and subsequently loses her life.
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Savita Halappanavar
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The collapse of this bank is one of the major factors that causes economic catastrophe in Ireland leading to an international bailout in 2010.
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Anglo-Irish
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Irish dignitaries lay out the red carpet for this Russian leader who doesn't make it off the plane.
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Boris Yeltsin
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Divorce does not become legal in Ireland until a referendum in what year? Even then it only passes by less than one percent.
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1995
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Though never technically banned, this masterpiece by James Joyce is not sold in Ireland due to strict censorship laws.
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Ulysses
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This type of expression is banned in Ireland in 2009, although the ban has not yet been enforced.
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Blasphemy
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A 'second civil war' breaks out as Irish sports fans take sides after Roy Keane argues with Mick McCarthy during Ireland's World Cup preparations on what island?
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Saipan
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The IRA kill 11 and injure 63 when it bombed the Remembrance Sunday commemoration in this Northern Irish town.
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Enniskillen
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The Irish government receives a congratulatory message from this American group after new citizenship laws are passed in 2004.
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Ku Klux Klan
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That's an urban myth.
As for some of the other questions, it's a matter of opinion as to whether the events they describe could be considered embarrassing. And as such it makes them somewhat arbitrary.