There is a new world record for the fastest sail around Ireland.

While Europeans were focused on the Brexit vote, others, further west, were gazing toward a more celestial horizon, and a new world of commercial possibilities.

Sunday’s Bank of Ireland Munster Junior Cup final between Young Munster and Cork Constitution (Musgrave Park, 2.30pm) has all the ingredients required to produce a thrilling spectacle.

LANSDOWNE 23 YOUNG MUNSTER 19: Lansdowne came through a huge test of their Ulster Bank League title credentials as they edged out Young Munster 23-19 in an absorbing Division 1A semi-final that went to extra-time on Saturday.

If the Vegas oddsmakers are to be believed, there is no separating New England and Seattle.

A coalition of companies and aid groups will test experimental drugs and collect blood plasma from Ebola survivors to treat new victims of the disease in West Africa.

A winged spaceship designed to take tourists on excursions beyond Earth’s atmosphere exploded during a test flight over the Mojave Desert, killing a pilot.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25million (€19.73m) to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic.

Many PR battles are fought ahead of the budget as lobbyists try to influence the finance minister, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Microsoft is to axe up to 18,000 jobs over the next year as the US software giant begins the steepest cuts in the firm’s 39-year history.

Pep Guardiola was likened, by The Guardian columnist Raphael Honigstein, to Spanish clothing retailer Zara this week — a comparison first made by ex-Barcelona treasurer Xavier Sala-i-Martín.

Gamers are set to pit their skills against each other at Ireland’s first professional electronic sports event next month.

Brad Pitt spent a week partying to get over a "stressful few months".

The FIA has announced a ban on media and other non-essential personnel in the Formula One pit lane after a cameraman was struck by a loose wheel during Sunday’s German Grand Prix.

A cameraman was floored by an errant tyre in the pit lane at the German Grand Prix - thankfully, he's ok.

Sebastian Vettel finally lived up to expectations by winning his home race yesterday after being given a run for his money by potential new team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.

Sebastian Vettel finally ended his July jinx by claiming victory in the German Grand Prix as he staved off a grandstand finish from Kimi Raikkonen.

He may have the surname Slim, but his wallet certainly isn’t.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has one of theworld’s best art collections but is without a family to inherit it. Where will it go, asks Blake Gopnik

The average cost of a four-year college degree in the US is $102,000. Such an investment writes James Pressley in his review of Enrico Moretti’s The New Geography of Jobs, might just be worth it to help the country’s cities prosper

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Senator David Norris today settled a €30,000 Circuit Civil Court claim for public relations services provided for him during his presidential election campaign.

A US soldier has been caught trying to defraud one of the world’s richest men.

BEHIND an energetic and controlled election campaign bid sits an eclectic mix of advisers, PR gurus, party grandees as well as media strategists.

THE object of parkour is to get from one place to another in the most efficient way possible using the human body and objects in the environment.

The man claiming that one of J K Rowling's Harry Potter books was lifted from another work has been ordered to pay more than £1.5m (€1.7m) into court as security for the costs of the author and her publisher - or the case will be struck out.

The co-founder of Microsoft has relaunched a patent lawsuit against Apple, Google and Facebook.

HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling may have to defend herself at the High Court against an allegation of copying her ideas from an earlier obscure children’s book writer.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling may have to defend herself at the British High Court against an allegation of copying her ideas from an earlier obscure children’s book writer.

BILL GATES paid tribute yesterday to the developer of an early personal computer which inspired him to found Microsoft.

Bill Gates paid tribute today to the developer of an early personal computer which inspired him to found Microsoft.

JK ROWLING has been named in a lawsuit alleging she stole ideas for her wildly popular and lucrative Harry Potter books from another British author.

JK Rowling has been named in a lawsuit claiming she stole ideas for her hugely popular and lucrative Harry Potter books from another British author.

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.

A CAGE fighter who helped plan Britain’s largest ever cash robbery was jailed for 18 years yesterday after admitting his role in the plot.

ONE of the men behind Britain’s biggest cash heist, the £53 million (€57.5m) robbery of a Securitas depot, admitted to playing a part in the 2006 hold-up and was told he faces a lengthy prison sentence.

The estate of a penniless British writer is suing the publishers behind J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' books, insisting they snubbed him and then used his idea as the basis for the boy wizard franchise.

A rocket carrying a Russian-American crew and a US billionaire space tourist on his second trip blasted off for the international space station today.

A MAN described as a nuisance to Dungarvan was jailed for three years yesterday for stabbing a man he claimed had “propositioned” him during a party.

Freddie Ljungberg has become the latest big-name player to head to North America, signing for Major League Soccer’s newest club the Seattle Sounders.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s new twins, a girl and a boy born by Caesarean section yesterday, are barely a few hours old but already their first photos are worth a fortune.