"Eitlíonn an t-éan."

Translation: The bird flies.

[FeargalMcGovern]

In Australia there is an expression "as the crow flies" referring to the distance from one point to another, if one where flying and unobstructed by land based obstacles.is there a similar expression in Irish? "as the bird flies"?

[galaxyrocker]

Gaelic Idioms by Gary Bannister lists díreach trasna na tíre as the Irish version of "as the crow flies"

[scilling]

“As the crow flies” has been in English since at least the mid 18th century; it’s still frequently used in North America, and I’d expect that it remains in common use in the UK and Ireland also.

[mjkuecker1965]

How do I differentiate between the bird flies, and the insect. There's a fly in the soup?

[Knocksedan]

A fly is cuil or cuileog

I did a quick search for cuileog san anraith and came across this joke

[mjkuecker1965]

The link was missing, but I found it. :) Yes, that's an old one, but a good one. :)

[Knocksedan]

Gabh mo leithscéal - I've fixed the link!

[silmeth]

Still not working. Unfortunately Duolingo doesn’t like ampersands in links. :(

Anyway, it can be easily found by searching for the Scéal grinn - cuileog san anraith topic.

[Knocksedan]

I gave up, and used a URL shortener instead.