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DID Electrical is an Irish chain of electrical and electronics shops. It has 23 outlets throughout Ireland, employing some 400 staff. It has 23 outlets throughout Ireland, employing some 400 staff. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was founded in 1968, with a shop on Mountjoy Square, Dublin.
The Millennium Trophy ( Irish: Corn na Mílaoise) is a rugby union award contested annually by England and Ireland as part of the Six Nations Championship. It was initiated in 1988 as part of Dublin 's millennial celebrations. The trophy has the shape of a horned Viking helmet. [3] As of 2024, England have won it 21 times, and Ireland 16 times.
Ireland began their 2011 Rugby World Cup campaign on the back of four defeats in a series of warm-up tests in August, with a 22–10 victory over the United States in New Plymouth on 11 September. Failing to secure a bonus point against world cup minnows the United States, a team ranked far below Ireland, this was an unconvincing win.
The sides have also met on four other occasions outside the Five Nations / Six Nations Championship: in 1909 (the first match between the two teams), a one-off match in 1972 and two Rugby World Cup warm-up matches in 2011. Ireland have a notoriously poor record in France since the end of the Second World War, only winning there twice between ...
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark.
In 1900 and 1901, competing with the Irish Amateur Athletic Association (IAAA), a rival association to the GAA, O'Connor set several unofficial world records in the long jump. He set an officially recognised world record of 24 ft 9ins (~7.54m) at the Royal Dublin Society's grounds in Dublin on 27 May 1901. On 5 August 1901 he jumped 24 ft ...
1879: The rules of Hurling first standardised with the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union. [ 33] 1881: Stoney units discovered by George Johnstone Stoney. [ 34] 1885: Cream cracker created by Joseph Haughton. [ 35] 1886: Graphophone created by Chichester Bell. 1888: Gregg shorthand created by John Robert Gregg.
The final pool game saw Ireland face France. Ireland came out 24–9 winners. [97] [98] The victory set up a game for Ireland against Pool C runners up Argentina. Ireland battled their opponents, but a series of mistakes spelt the end for Ireland's RWC of 2015. Ireland qualified automatically for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.