However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

Sidwell ( 2005 ) reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Mon – Khmer as follows:

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Benny Bailey, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer ( Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band ) ( d. 2005 )

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador ( b 1925 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

In 2005, the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) indicated that its armed campaign was over and that it is now exclusively committed to democratic politics.

In January 2005, the paper was due to run a front-page story on the Provisional IRA's denial of involvement in the Northern Bank Robbery, one of Europe's largest ever, and a column by Kevin Myers, which said that the Provisional IRA were responsible.

On 13 November 2005 the UDA announced that it would " consider its future ", in the wake of the standing down of the Provisional IRA and Loyalist Volunteer Force.

** Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) ( 1969 – 2005 ).

In March 2005, a few groups and former members of the SA who did not join Respect met as the Socialist Alliance ( Provisional ).

* In February 2005, he accused the Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Martin Ferris of being members of the Provisional IRA Army Council.

On 26 September 2005, the commission published its fourth and final report on acts of Provisional IRA ( PIRA ) decommissioning.

The Iraqi Interim Government itself took the place of the Coalition Provisional Authority ( and the Iraq Interim Governing Council ) on June 28, 2004, and was replaced by the Iraqi Transitional Government on May 3, 2005.

On 7 January 2005 Hugh Orde, the service's Chief Constable, issued an interim report in which he blamed the Provisional IRA for the robbery.

On 18 January 2005 the Provisional IRA issued a two-line statement denying any involvement in the robbery: " The IRA has been accused of involvement in the recent Northern Bank robbery.

In March 2004 a governing council set up by the Coalition Provisional Authority signed an interim constitution which called for the election of a transitional National Assembly no later than the end of January 2005.

The murder of Robert McCartney ( 1971 – 31 January 2005 ) occurred in Belfast, Northern Ireland, allegedly carried out by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

In 2005 Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams called on the Provisional IRA to move from physical force activity to exclusively democratic means.

The Transitional National Assembly, which was elected in January 2005 pursuant to the Coalition Provisional Authority's Transitional Administrative Law, appointed a Constitutional Committee for the purpose of preparing a draft constitution by August 15, 2005.

The British and Irish Lions against the All Blacks in 2005

In 2005, Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Michael McDowell told Dáil Éireann that the organisation had a maximum of 150 members.

* 1953 – Tony Adams, Irish film producer ( d. 2005 )

* Irish Communications Market: Quarterly Key Data-September 2005 — Comreg report

On 1 November 2005, the Irish government published the Transport 21 plan which includes € 18bn for improved roads and € 16bn for improved rail, including the Western Railway Corridor and the Dublin Metro.

In 2005 the Irish Government launched Transport 21, a plan envisaging the investment of € 34 billion in transport infrastructure from 2006 until 2015.

* 1936 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian and actor ( d. 2005 )

* May 22 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer ( d. 2005 )

** Dan O ' Herlihy, Irish film actor ( d. 2005 )

In 2005, theater camp Stagedoor Manor premiered a play, The Heart Rising, focusing around a family of Irish immigrants to America.

In 2005 the Commissioners for Irish Lights named their new vessel Graunaile .< ref >

There is a history of pensions in Ireland that can be traced back to Brehon Law imposing a legal responsibility on the kin group to take care of its members who were aged, blind, deaf, sick or insane .< REF > THE IRISH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM AND THE ROLE OF IRISH OCCUPATIONAL PENSION FUNDS AS INSTITUTIONAL MONITORS-Lynn ( UCD PhD Thesis, 2005 )</ REF > For a discussion on pension funds and early Irish law, see F Kelly, A Guide to Early Irish Law ( Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988 ).

The South-West region comprising counties Cork and Kerry contribute € 24, 877 billion ($ 39. 3 billion USD )( 2005 values ; 2008 exchange rate ) towards the Irish GDP.

* 2005: The Door Stands Open, Irish Writers Centre

* 2005 Irish PEN Award

were members of the Irish Football League until they folded in 2005.

* Bonynge looking to his Irish roots – Opera ~ Opera article 2005

* The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood from The Land League to Sinn Féin, Owen McGee, Four Courts Press, 2005, ISBN 1-85182-972-5

' < Michael Wheatley, Nationalism and the Irish party: provincial Ireland 1910-1916 ( New York, 2005 ), p. 36 > Wheatley was referring to the fact that Fitzgibbon was a member of the CDB in Castlerea when the transaction took place.

In March 2005, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív announced that the government of Ireland would begin listing only the Irish language versions of place names in the Gaeltachtaí as the official names, stripping the official Ordnance Survey of their English equivalents, to bring them up to date with roadsigns in the Gaeltacht, which have been in Irish only since 1970.

In the fall of 2005, it was publicly revealed that Irish windmill company Airtricity was planning to build several windmills in Hartsville, and had signed contracts with several landowners for the use of land on which to put these windmills.