Life Hack: How to watch Wednesday’s solar eclipse — and why Munster will have the best view

Cork is Ireland’s best-positioned major city for the eclipse

Dr Niall Smith, head of Research at Munster Technological University and head of MTU Blackrock Castle Observatory, and Caoimhe Lyons, a Mathematical Sciences and Physics graduate and science facilitator at MTU Blackrock Castle Observatory prepare for a once-in-a-generation deep partial solar eclipse on Wednesday. Picture: Darragh Kane

Did you know we’re going to see a spectacular solar eclipse next week from Ireland? 

On Wednesday, August 12, what is being described as Ireland’s best solar eclipse for generations will see up to 97% of the Sun obscured by the Moon in parts of the South-West, and up to 98% from Valentia Island, Co Kerry.