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She was selected to represent Ireland in the 5000 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, placing seventeenth overall. [11] That month, she lowered her personal best over 5000 metres again, to 15:20.93 in Oslo. [12] She won the 5000 metres title at the Irish Championships in Dublin in June 2024, running a time of 15:44.80. [13]
In May 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an airplane (between New York City and Paris). The second solo piloting, and the first to carry a passenger, was Clarence Duncan Chamberlin on 6 June 1927. Edward R. Armstrong proposed a string of anchored "seadromes" to refuel planes in a crossing.
Distances from Castle Hill Tunnel Portal Distances to terminals measured around terminal loops The Channel Tunnel ( French : Tunnel sous la Manche ), sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Chunnel , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] is a 50.46 km (31.35-mile) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone ( Kent , England) with Coquelles ( Pas ...
Milestone on Mountbellew Bridge, originally erected near by c.1760. Distances are given in Irish miles to: Dublin (79); Athlone (20) Ballyforan (9) Ballinasloe (2); Galway (23) Tuam (12) Dunmore (2) Detail of John Rocque's 1794 map of Ireland showing scales of English and Irish miles Milestone on the N2 road reading: Slane 5, Carrickmacross 21 and Collon 9 (Irish) miles.
Ireland: Sport: Athletics: Event(s) 5000m ... is an Irish long-distance ... He competed in the 5000 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024. [16 ...
Ireland fields a single national rugby team and a single association, the Irish Rugby Football Union, governs the sport across the island. The Irish rugby team have played in every Rugby World Cup, making the quarter-finals in eight of them. [196] Ireland also hosted games during the 1991 and the 1999 Rugby World Cups (including a quarter-final).
Former Irish College in Paris (Present day Irish Cultural Centre) France and Ireland have a long history of relations given the proximity between Ireland and France. There has always been migration back and forth between the two since ancient times. In 1578, the Irish College in Paris was established as a Catholic school to train Irish students ...
The E8 European long distance path or E8 path is one of the European long-distance paths, leading 4,700 km (2,920 miles) across Europe, from Cork in Ireland to Bulgaria.