Eurosport is to be made available for the first time and in high definition to eir Vision customers in Ireland today.

Star Trek Discovery has had some setbacks in recent months, with a delay from January 2017 into the summer and the loss of showrunner Bryan Fuller.

Ads on foreign TV stations transmitted in Ireland aimed at very young children have been found to breach Irish broadcasting codes.

SPORT has become the life blood of communications, especially traditional television stations.

RTÉ has appointed Dee Forbes as successor to outgoing director-general Noel Curran.

Julie Kelleher, from Carrigaline, Co Cork, is the artistic director at the Everyman Theatre, as well as being a theatre director. She is producing an upcoming production of Juno and the Paycock at the Everyman Theatre, running from February 10–20.

The Apprentice is back on our TV screens in two weeks thanks to the BBC. I won’t be watching it.

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.

TV3 could bid against RTÉ for Irish TV rights to the Olympic Games if, as expected, free-to-air rights are sub-licensed to an Irish broadcaster.

RTÉ has yet to decide if it will broadcast the 2020 and 2024 Olympics after US-based media giant Discovery Communications secured the European broadcast rights for four Olympics through 2024 in a landmark deal worth €1.3bn.

A British spacecraft which disappeared as it approached Mars in search of alien life successfully landed on the Red Planet’s surface, scientists behind the £50m (€65m) project said.

The author of a new book on Ernest Shackleton has said Ireland should “reclaim” the famous Polar explorer.

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Actor Gabriel Byrne and his long-term partner finalised their secret Irish wedding over coffee and scones in one of Cork’s top restaurants.

A hapless cannabis growhouse operator, who learned to cultivate cannabis by watching the Discovery channel, yesterday escaped jail.

LAX is the international hub for stars in and out of Hollywood, and a few celebrities were among the travellers caught up in the chaos following a deadly shooting at the airport today.

A tightrope daredevil has completed a walk that took him quarter of a mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in north-eastern Arizona.

A brother of model and TV presenter Glenda Gilson has launched an appeal of his conviction in connection with a dangerous drug driving incident.

It has terrorised mariners since ancient times and eluded researchers for decades, but now the 'Kraken' of the deep has given up its secrets.

On Oct 24, Ireland’s TV signals will go digital. This means non-cable and satellite TV viewers will need to make choices about where their service comes from, says John Hearne

An Irish documentary has beaten huge competition to be nominated for two Emmy Awards.

TV adventurer Bear Grylls has left the Discovery Channel after a row over “new programming”, his publicist said today.

Daredevil Nik Wallenda is set to walk a 1,800 foot (549m) tightrope across Niagara Falls this summer, a feat the seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas said has been his childhood dream.

Zany experiments testing scientific theories in real-world settings have earned US TV show 'MythBusters' a devoted following, but a botched stunt encountered an unhappy audience when an errant cannonball smashed through a California family’s bedroom.

WHAT do making rockets and robots, gaming, 3D, animation, teddy hacking, astronauts — even a portable planetarium and Mega Molecules — have in common? Discovery 2011.

Space shuttle Atlantis has left the International Space Station for the last time.

Nasa has approved a Monday morning launch attempt for the space shuttle Endeavour after reviewing all the repairs for an electrical problem that grounded the next-to-last flight two weeks ago.

LAST Saturday Thomond Park hosted the latest meeting of Munster and Leinster in the Magners League, a game hyped in the usual terms: a huge battle, with unflinching confrontation. You know the drill.

Presenter Konnie Huq is leaving 'The X Factor' spin-off show.

Discovery ended its career as the world's most flown spaceship today, returning from orbit for the last time and taking off in a new direction as a museum piece.

Astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex geared up for the first spacewalk of their mission today, amid some good news from Mission Control.

Space shuttle Discovery arrived at the International Space Station today, making its final visit before being docked in a museum.

Discovery, the world’s most travelled spaceship, thundered into orbit for the final time, heading towards the International Space Station on a journey that marks the beginning of the end of the shuttle era.

Executors of Michael Jackson’s estate are demanding that the Discovery Channel cancel plans for a show purporting to re-enact Jackson’s post-mortem.

Space shuttle Discovery's final voyage was cancelled today until at least the end of the month because of a large hydrogen gas leak that forced yet another launch delay.

Nasa will try today to launch space shuttle Discovery on its final voyage, although stormy weather could force yet another delay.

POLICE shot a gunman and safely freed the three people he had taken hostage in an hours-long standoff at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside Washington, police said.

Police tonight shot an armed man who took three hostages at the Discovery Channel network’s headquarters. All of hostages escaped safely.

SPACE shuttle Atlantis has lifted off on its final voyage, carrying an experienced crew of six and a full shipment of space station gear.

Mila Kunis spends hours playing computer games with her boyfriend Macaulay Culkin.

Rain and overcast skies prevented space shuttle Discovery from returning to Earth today, and Mission Control instructed the astronauts to spend a 15th day circling the world to await better weather.

Spacewalking astronauts had to pull out a hammer and pry bar while attaching a big, new tank full of ammonia coolant to the International Space Station today, successfully driving in a stiff bolt after two frustrating hours.

Space shuttle Discovery successfully docked at the International Space Station today after its astronauts overcame a rare antenna breakdown that knocked out radar tracking.