: Senior Catholic clergy faced intense criticism over the Fr. Brendan Smyth paedophile priest scandal and the bungled extradition process that eventually contributed to the government's fall.

arrived on the scene with their debut single "Love Me for a Reason," marking the start of a boyband era in Ireland. 1994: Reeling In The Years - RTE

Jeff Bezos started Amazon in a Bellevue, Washington, garage. Yahoo! was founded by two Stanford students. The first cyberbank opened. The first spam email was sent (Green Card lawyers). In 1994, if you told someone you would soon watch movies on your phone, they would have laughed. But the seed was planted.