Five Cork bright sparks captured images of a galaxy over 2.7 million light years away while cruising 36,000 feet above the Atlantic.

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.

A five-year-old boy who has battled leukaemia for years fulfilled his wish to be his favourite superhero – taking on foe after foe around San Francisco dressed in a black Batman costume.

The winners in the US Supreme Court case that overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban tied the knot at San Francisco City Hall yesterday, about an hour after a federal appeals court freed same-sex couples to obtain marriage licences for the first time in four years.

Tributes were paid yesterday following the death of one of the men who transformed a rugged headland in Kinsale, Co Cork, into one of the most spectacular golf courses in the world.

Cork is hoping to create technology history this St Patrick’s weekend by using advanced video teleconferencing to allow a US mayor lead parades on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Taoiseach may have wooed the Chinese entrepreneurial dragon, but a high-powered delegation from Cork is turning to the opposite side of the world, and Silicon Valley in particular, in a bid to create jobs.

Polaroid is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs.

WILL Michael O’Leary quit his job at Ryanair this year? Wanna bet? You can: he’s 15/1 to go.