Despite talk of missions to Mars and a renewed interest in returning to the moon, nothing can match the awesome feat of that first lunar landing 50 years ago today, writes Dan Buckley.

WE CHOOSE to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has announced that 180 international thinkers and business experts will attend the Global Irish Economic Forum in Dublin later this month.

“WE choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

“WE choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard.”