One of the big highlights for day four of the Cork International Choral Festival is The Big Sing, where everyone gets the chance to take to the stage. Check out some of Saturday's highlights here. 

Day three of the Cork International Choral Festival sees plenty more exciting events happening across Cork City. Check out some of Friday's highlights here. 

Proud Corkonians might be a little baffled by new signs popping up around the city and county telling them they are in Ireland’s Ancient East.

This week’s online and in the shops.

The Easter Bunny has paid a visit to Smyths Toys and children are invited to stores nationwide to complete the free Easter Egg Hunt and claim their chocolatey treat from 10am to 4pm tomorrow; www.smythstoys.com 

DURING March the bright stars of winter give way to the inexorable lengthening of the day as the sun rises higher in the sky. On March 20, the day and night are of equal length, the so-called spring equinox (‘equal night’).

Are you wondering about the best way to view this morning’s solar eclipse in the safest way possible?

Events across the country have been planned for Friday to mark the first significant solar eclipse to be seen in this part of the world in more than 15 years.

CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork is to make more of its space, having secured €35,000 in funding from Science Foundation Ireland.

The network of controversial new bike lanes in Cork city are to be celebrated and reclaimed as part of an annual cycling festival next week.

Five Cork students aim to make astronomical history by snapping a picture of space using a telescope operated remotely from a flight to San Francisco.

IRISH scientists working on an ambitious European Space Agency-led comet-chasing mission face an anxious wait when the Rosetta probe is due to wake from its deep-space hibernation some 673 million kilometres away, near Jupiter. Follow the live updates from Eoin English here.

In an age when technology reigns, shared classes between children on different sides of the planet are nothing new, but when they journey into space simultaneously that’s a whole new frontier.

An Irish observatory is set to beam samples of the nation’s Gathering celebrations to a planet beyond our solar system.

THE public will be able to watch a piece of history unfold today when the CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory screens live the last take-off of the space shuttle.