Under Mourinho, Chelsea became the fifth English team to win back-to-back league championships since the Second World War ( 2004 – 05 and 2005 – 06 ), in addition to winning an FA Cup ( 2007 ) and two League Cups ( 2005 and 2007 ).

The Marlins were asked about ace Dontrelle Willis after his Cy Young caliber campaign in 2005 amid the " Market Correction " but rejected an offer from the Detroit Tigers that would have landed them now 4 × MLB All-Star and 2011 AL MVP pitcher Justin Verlander and five-tool outfielder Curtis Granderson, both prospects with some major league experience under their belt.

He threw the fastest fastball of all major league starters in 2005, averaging 95. 6 miles per hour.

* Mike Lowell ( 1999 – 2005 ) — Lowell a native of Coral Gables, FL had successful years in Florida and established himself as one of the elite third baseman in the league.

Originally built for the Central Coast Bears team in the NRL rugby league competition ( to this day, the seats are arranged to say ' Go Bears '), since 2005 it is now the home of the Central Coast Mariners A-League association football team and was the home venue of the Central Coast Rays rugby union Australian Rugby Championship team

In the 2005 – 06 season, Manchester United failed to qualify for the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in over a decade, but recovered to secure a second-place league finish and victory over Wigan Athletic in the 2006 Football League Cup Final.

The largest adult league is the San Francisco Ultimate League, with 350 teams and over 4000 active members in 2005, located in San Francisco, California.

* Kujawiak Hydrobudowa Włocławek-men's football team, winner of regional 3rd league group 2004, promoted to play in 2nd league in season 2004 / 2005, now Zawisza Bydgoszcz, club bought by Bydgoszcz.

After the league folded, the western United States were without independent baseball until 2005, when former WBL cities Chico, Long Beach, and Yuma were awarded franchises in the upstart Golden Baseball League.

The second Jackson Senators team was a member of the independent Central Baseball League from 2002 to 2005, a league that was not affiliated with Major League Baseball.

Despite being hampered by injuries prior to and during 2005 – 06, the Flyers lived up to those expectations in the first half of the season, reaching the top of the league standings in January while simultaneously holding a ten-point lead in the Atlantic Division.

With the lockout resolved in 2005, the league organized an unprecedented draft lottery to set the 2005 draft order.

In 2005, the SAL had the highest attendance in 101 years with over 3, 541, 992 fans ( while minor league baseball set a second straight record with 41, 333, 279 attendees ).

Although the salary cap was a blow to one of the highest spenders of the league, the Colorado Avalanche finished the 2005 – 06 regular season with a 43 – 30 – 9 record for 95 points, good enough to finish second in the Northwest Division, seven behind the Calgary Flames and tied with the Edmonton Oilers.

Florida Atlantic joined the league as a member in all sports on July 1, 2005.

On May 1, 2005, the Boston Red Sox and Olerud agreed to terms on a minor league contract.

The 2005 season started disappointingly and Ulseth was sacked after only 15 league matches, when Tromsø IL was struggling to avoid relegation.

The club also won the Combined Counties League Premier Challenge Cup in 2004 and the Surrey Senior Cup in 2005 to complete consecutive league and cup doubles, one of which finishing the season unbeaten in the league.

In June 2005, Garcés signed a minor league contract with the Red Sox, pitched in the Gulf Coast League for the Gulf Coast Red Sox.

The Grises basketball team ( Humacao Grays ), founded in 2005, belongs to Puerto Rico's National Superior Basketball league.

The Mississippi Braves or M-Braves, a Class AA minor league baseball affiliate of the Atlanta Braves moved from Greenville, South Carolina to Pearl before the 2005 season.

A bomb defused in Dublin in December 2005 was believed to have been the work of the CIRA.

The latest Ordnance Survey Ireland " Discovery Series " ( Third Edition 2005 ) 1: 50, 000 map of the Dublin Region, Sheet 50, shows the boundaries of the city and three surrounding counties of the region.

As of 2005, approximately 800, 000 people were employed in the Greater Dublin Area, of whom around 600, 000 were employed in the services sector and 200, 000 in the industrial sector.

* Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Publishes DCMI Abstract Model ( Cover Pages, March 2005 )

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.

On 16 December 2005, senior Sinn Féin member Denis Donaldson appeared before TV cameras in Dublin and confessed to being a British spy for twenty years.

The President's wreath ( in green ) laid at Ireland's Remembrance Day ceremonies in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin | St. Patrick's Cathedral in 2005.

In 2005, Switzerland agreed to join the Schengen treaty and Dublin Convention by popular vote.

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 ).

Dublin Four Courts Press, 2005.

Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2005.

In 2005 Governor Rick Perry signed a bill designating Dublin as the official Irish Capital of Texas.

Jason Byrne, comedian, moved to the village from Dublin in 2005.

In 2005, a spokeswoman for Bertie Ahern stated he had no interest in using it, and he remained resident in his private home in Drumcondra in Dublin.

Edel Bhreathnach, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005

* Celebration Pinter staged reading ( Lambert ), Gate Theatre, Dublin / Albery, 2005

The Uncrowned King of Ireland: Charles Stewart Parnell – His Love Story and Political Life, Nonesuch Books, Dublin, 2005 ; first published: 1914, ISBN 1-84588-534-1, ISBN 978-1-84588-534-2O ' Shea was Mrs Charles Stewart Parnell.

On 19 August 2005, Gary Moore staged a concert at the Point Theatre, Dublin, promoted as " The Boy Is Back in Town ".

* Last Conquest of Ireland ( Perhaps ), ( Glasgow, 1876-reprinted University College Dublin Press, 2005 ) ISBN I-905558-36-4

Despite NTL Ireland turning a profit, in May 2005, NTL sold their Dublin, Galway, and Waterford cable business ( which they had acquired in 1999 for € 825 million from the Irish government ) to UGC Europe for € 325 million — this after having spent in excess of € 100 million on network infrastructure ( i. e. making a gross loss of € 500 million-more than 50 %-over what they paid ).

* T. Ryle Dwyer, The Squad and the intelligence operations of Michael Collins, Dublin, 2005.

In 2005 she was conferred with LL. D., h. c., University College, Dublin, 1988.

and is detailed in Fritscher's gay linguistics essay " Homomasculinity: Framing Keywords of Queer Popular Culture " presented at the Queer Keyword Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, April 2005.