The tunnel connects Dublin Port and the M1 motorway close to Dublin Airport.

Dublin Airport is operated by the Dublin Airport Authority and is located north of Dublin City in the administrative county of Fingal.

Dublin Airport is the busiest airport in Ireland, followed by Cork and Shannon.

Dublin Airport currently ranks as the 25th busiest airport in Europe recording nearly 19 million passengers during 2011.

These include Aircoach, a subsidiary of FirstGroup which provides services to Dublin Airport from Dublin city centre, South Dublin City, Greystones and Bray.

They also operate two intercity express non stop services service between Dublin Airport, Dublin City Centre, and Cork and also a non stop route between Belfast City Centre, Dublin Airport and Dublin City.

Aircoach, a private operator, does however operate a competing Dublin to Belfast Express service via Dublin Airport.

Ireland has five main international airports: Dublin Airport, Belfast International Airport ( Aldergrove ), Cork Airport, Shannon Airport and Ireland West Airport ( Knock ).

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

It is approximately from Belfast and from Dublin.

It will convene immediately prior to the joint meeting of the Animals and Plants Committees, is scheduled for 22-24 March 2012 in Dublin, Ireland.

County Dublin ( or Contae Átha Cliath ) is a county in Ireland.

It is part of the Dublin Region and is in the province of Leinster.

It is named after the city of Dublin, which is the capital of Ireland.

Despite the legal status of the Dublin Region, the term " County Dublin " is still in common usage.

The area formerly known as " County Dublin " is now defined in legislation solely as the " Dublin Region " under the Local Government Act, 1991 ( Regional Authorities ) ( Establishment ) Order, 1993, and this is the terminology officially used by the four Dublin administrative councils in press releases concerning the former county area.

The competition is held at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin and consists of four different events:

Dublin (; locally ;, or Áth Cliath,, occasionally Duibhlinn ) is the capital and most populous city of Ireland.

Dublin is situated near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and the centre of the Dublin Region.

Similar to the cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford — Dublin is administered separately from its respective County with its own City Council.

The city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ( GaWC ) as a global city, with a ranking of " Alpha -", placing Dublin among the top 30 cities in the world.

The Dubhlinn was situated where the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle.

Táin Bó Cuailgne (" The Cattle Raid of Cooley ") refers to Dublind rissa ratter Áth Cliath, meaning " Dublin, which is called Ath Cliath ".

In 2010 around 1, 750, 000 passengers passed through the airport, making it the third busiest airport in the state after Dublin and Cork.

Belfast International is the busiest airport in Northern Ireland and the second busiest airport on the island of Ireland in terms of passenger numbers after Dublin Airport, and is followed by Belfast-City, Cork and Shannon.

In 2011, Cork Airport handled 2. 36 million passengers, making it the state's second busiest airport in terms of passenger numbers, after Dublin, and fourth busiest on the island of Ireland, after Dublin, Belfast International and Belfast City.

The section of the N7 between Naas and Dublin is the second busiest road in the country.

Dublin Airport is by far the busiest airport in Ireland.

Maynooth railway station is one of the busiest in the Dublin / Kildare region, serving as it does two major educational institutions.

Though slow to develop, Dublin Airport had become the 16th busiest international airport by 2007.

In April 2010, the Dublin Port Company announced its " busiest week ever ", following restrictions placed on European airspace because of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland.

The centre is home to Vue Dublin ( formerly Ster Century Dublin ) which is claimed to be the busiest cinema in Ireland.

To these areas may be added the area of Dublin city which collectively comprise the Dublin Region () and come under the remit of the Dublin Regional Authority.

In discussing the legislation to dissolve Dublin County Council, Avril Doyle TD said, " The Bill before us today effectively abolishes County Dublin, and as one born and bred in these parts of Ireland I find it rather strange that we in this House are abolishing County Dublin.

The majority of these are controlled by Dublin Bus, but a number of smaller companies also operate.

One of these lines is the electrified Dublin Area Rapid Transit ( DART ) line, which runs primarily along the coast of Dublin, from Malahide and Howth southwards as far as Greystones in County Wicklow.

Heavy fighting occurred at the rebel-held positions around the Grand Canal as these troops advanced towards Dublin.

James Stephens, who was in Dublin during the week, thought, " None of these people were prepared for Insurrection.

Other organizations in Ireland use the harp, but not always prominently ; these include the National University of Ireland and the associated University College Dublin, and the Gaelic Athletic Association.

The Institute of technology system was organised on the committee areas or " functional areas ", these still remain legal but are not as important as originally envisioned as the institutes are now more national in character and are only really applied today when selecting governing councils, similarly Dublin Institute of Technology was originally a group of several colleges of the City of Dublin committee.

Cities which, in the Republic, are currently administered outside the county system, but with the same legal status as administrative counties, are not shown separately: these are Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick and Waterford.

To these may be added the historic County Corporate of the city of Dublin, which, under the terms of the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898 was abolished to be succeeded by the County borough of Dublin.

In the last decade of the 8th century, Norse raiders began attacking targets in Ireland and, beginning in the mid-9th century, these raiders established the fortified camps that later grew into Ireland's first cities: Dublin, Limerick, Waterford, Wexford, and Cork.

At least 12 of these had been members of Na Fianna in the Dublin Battalion.

In the next decade Thomas Slade ( Surveyor of the navy from 1755, along with co-Surveyor William Bately ) broke away from the past and designed several new classes of 51-to 52-metre 74s to compete with these French designs, starting with the Dublin and Bellona classes.

The college was founded in 1592 as the " mother " of a new university, modelled after the collegiate universities of Oxford and of Cambridge, but, unlike these, only one college was ever established ; as such, the designations " Trinity College " and " University of Dublin " are usually synonymous for practical purposes.

It was modelled after the collegiate universities of Oxford and of Cambridge, but unlike these only one college was established ; as such, the designations " Trinity College " and " University of Dublin " are usually synonymous for practical purposes.

Queen Victoria issued letters patent in 1857 giving legal foundation to the senate, and other authorities specific to the university – but the high court held in 1888 that these dealt with " not the incorporation of the University of Dublin but of its Senate merely ", the judge noting pointedly, referring to the founding of University College Dublin, that " The advisers of Queen Victoria knew how to incorporate a University when they meant to do so.