The service includes Star Wars, the Simpsons and Marvel, as well as decades of Disney's own classic material.

A 90-degree vertiginous cliff above, and a disappearing ground below, is no place to contemplate the nature of landscape and what actually constitutes an island. Actually I lie.

Richard T Cooke is involved in organising the Music at the Maldron free gigs by Jimmy Crowley and others as part of the Mother Jones Festival in Cork, until Sunday.

Fionn Ferreira (18) from Ballydehob in west Cork, was named the overall winner of the 2019 Google Science Fair.

As pop-up gardens give us a taste of stunning arrays of plant life, Peter Dowdall shares his pick of the bunch of Irish gardens you should visit this summer

A West Cork ferry company has been chosen to transport the Dutch royal couple on a VIP river and harbour voyage in Cork City this week.

As the beloved 88-year-old actor/director releases another film, avowed fan John Daly selects 10 of his favourites

A postman helped a man deliver a shark to safety while on his rounds in Cork Harbour yesterday.

A waft of something fishy tickles my nostrils as the automatic doors go their separate ways. It could be salmon…or the calamari?

Twenty-First Century Fox shares jumped in US trading and Sky shares rose in London after sources said both Comcast and Verizon Communications were also interested in buying parts of its studio and TV operations.

A report that Rupert Murdoch held talks about selling film and television assets to Walt Disney added another layer of uncertainty to his £11.7bn (€13.3bn) bid to buy all of broadcaster Sky.

A report that Rupert Murdoch held talks about selling film and television assets to Walt Disney added another layer of uncertainty to his £11.7bn (€13.3bn) bid to buy all of broadcaster Sky.

On the 32nd anniversary of the discovery of the wreckage of the Titanic, Conor Kane talks to an underwater explorer, the first Irishman to set eyes on the doomed ship on the bottom of the ocean floor.

Kya deLongchamps reveals Ireland’s special claim to fame and the dramatic role it played in colonising the Earth before the Age of the Dinosaur

A relatively straightforward first maths exam was faced into by the majority of Leaving Certificate students who took ordinary level Paper 1.

It was a lucky week for fishermen as rare creatures of the deep were caught off the Kerry and Clare coast.

Kya deLongchamps encourages a wide-eyed spring ramble around three of the many heritage gardens of Ireland.

P-22, a six-year-old male mountain-lion living in Southern California, became a minor celebrity when he was photographed walking past an American cultural icon; the famous Hollywood sign, with its 15m high lettering, in the Santa Monica Mountains. He has also sheltered under a house and broken into Los Angeles Zoo where he may have dismembered a koala, writes Richard Collins. 

As the Premier League season gets under way next weekend, Sky TV will once again assert its dominance across the sporting realm. Brushing aside the post-Brexit concerns dogging many other UK companies, Sky shares posted a 7% rise —their strongest increase in three years — on the back of significant revenue growth.

Do take a look at the West Cork Garden Trail’s websiteas they are suggesting a number of interesting trip combinations for viewing of the various Gulf Stream gardens dotted all over the coast of West Cork. 

It’s nearly summer holiday time. Brilliant if you’re looking forward to taking the shortest route possible to the nearest beach; not so good if you’re fretting about leaving your house unattended, writes Gráinne McGuinness.

A county council-led plan to boost the economy of West Cork through encouraging more cruise liner passengers into the area is beginning to pay off.

A rare recording of four dolphins hunting a shark near Cronulla Beach, Sydney has been caught on camera with a Drone.

A drone enthusiast got more than he bargained for as he filmed a pod of rare false killer whales off Cronulla, south of Sydney in Australia.

For the latest big release in an incredible year for Irish cinema, Rachel Griffiths plays a grieving mother embroiled in an unlikely love affair, writes Helen Barlow

Brilliant sunshine and rising temperatures followed the mammoth blizzard that paralysed much of the US east coast.

JOHN AITCHISON has a job most of us could only dream of.

Hurling at Croke Park has been listed among 10 of the world’s ultimate sporting destinations by travel bible Lonely Planet.

Well-known adventurer and television presenter Ben Fogle is a man on a mission — the daring documentarian is out to prove there are great white sharks lurking in the depths of the Irish Sea.

A renowned travel and adventure show which broadcasts to millions of people across the US has been touring Ireland this week.

Your spoiler free guide to tonight's TV.

The vendors of this mid-Cork farmhouse conversion are world-travellers who brought back more than souvenirs from their travels abroad....they even brought back stone for their renovtations, along with some lofty ideas for their homefront.

The Government department responsible for safeguarding the wreck of the Lusitania has launched a robust defence of its management of the site over the last two decades.

ENGLAND: Covered entirely in crystals, it may not be to everybody’s taste — but a £420,000 (€582,430) piano is possibly the most bling musical instrument in the world.

It’s a National Geographic staff member’s worst nightmare: there you are on location, studying the mating habits of wild animals when - gasp! - you’re spotted, exposed on the open plain.

Your guide to this evening's best TV programmes.

The decision by An Taisce, in November, 2014, to seek a judicial review of the proposed improvement work on the section of the N86 road from Dingle to Camp has saddened, disappointed, and angered the majority of people living on the Dingle Peninsula and those who visit it regularly.

The team which investigated the Cork Airport plane crash has declined to co-operate with the makers of a major documentary on the disaster, due to air tonight, out of respect for the survivors and victims’ families.

Noel Baker chills out a luxurious bolthole in the foothill of the Sugar Loaf, surrounded by some of the country’s most beautiful scenery. Life can be so sweet...

As the World Press Photo exhibition opens in Ireland, Richard Fitzpatrick talks to some of the winning photographers about their amazing images.

Ireland has proven to be a major hit, with some of the biggest adventure travel specialists in the world heaping praise on the country. 

Cheering crowds, hundreds of handshakes, and plenty of pats on the back. It’s not every day you win the world’s top science competition, but these three Cork girls almost make it look easy.

Three Cork teenagers have bagged the top prize at this year’s Google Science Fair for their project, Natural Bacteria Combating World Hunger.