I’m a natural risk-taker.

Limerick Institute of Technology has created Irish space history after an experiment that could deliver a breakthrough to successfully growing crops in extreme conditions on Earth was loaded on the International Space Station.

On Tuesday a fragile man broke in the industry we all support. He cracked in the pressure cooker we all built.

UK: A couple have held their wedding reception at the pizza restaurant where they had their first date 14 years ago.

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist, Professor Peter Higgs, has said he plans to retire next year at the age of 85.

IF Irish fans thought it was pricey getting to Tallinn, they better pray to whatever God they believe in that Ireland get a favourable draw for Euro 2012 come December.

Police were called to the home of Jade Goody today after a car belonging to a nurse caring for the terminally-ill reality TV star was damaged, apparently by vandals.

A HIGHLY sophisticated poison was how Klaus Leutzenkirchen, the head of the nuclear chemistry department in the EU’s Institute for Trans-uranium elements, described polonium-210.

UNIVERSITY College Cork has become the number one recipient of funding under the EU’s prestigious Marie Curie research programme.

The Prince of Wales was today honouring four cancer nurses for their commitment.