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On a bitterly cold day on Saturday, February 23, a small gathering of invited people came together at Slaney Park House, Baltinglass to watch the inflation of two massive hot air balloons.

The significance of the event was not lost on anyone present as the balloonists aimed and fired hydrogen gas into the envelope. On this very site lived the man, Richard Crosbie, who succeeded in manning the first Irish hot air balloon flight in January 1785, not long after the first ever balloon flight in France.
[Source: Wicklow People]

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