Having flown higher than any Cork flag in history, the blood and bandages that once orbited the globe have returned to Earth.

Two Cork flags are set to boldly go where no rebel county flags have gone before.

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and concentrated instead on his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station today.

A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, rushed through antenna and cable work outside the International Space Station and even managed to do an extra chore