Chuck Blazer, the disgraced US football executive whose admissions of corruption set off a global scandal that ultimately toppled Fifa president Sepp Blatter, has died at the age of 72.

Bestselling author Lucinda Reilly plans on spending less time in airports and more time at her West Cork hideaway, writes Ellie O’Byrne

In January 2015 marine archaeologist investigating a two and a half thousand-year-old wreck off the coast of Sicily made a curious discovery. 

Beautiful Bahamas

Irish show jumpers are making their mark at the $9m, 12-week Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, with Richie Moloney third in Saturday’s grand prix and Darragh Kenny racing to victory in a speed class.

Lots of excellent telly on the box tonight, from talented folks to aquatic fantasy.

Gerald Killingworth

Dubai shattered the world record for the largest ever pyrotechnic display on New Year’s Eve with a show involving more than half a million fireworks, Guinness World Records said yesterday.

The story of two condemned men sent to find the lost city of Atlantis beneath the sea five centuries ago has seen a young teen emerge tops in fantasy writing competition.

I WAS not surprised to read a genetic study of the present day inhabitants of the Canary Islands, revealed that the natives of La Gomera — our second home for over 30 years — retain more of the aboriginal DNA that the inhabitants of the other islands.

The space shuttle Atlantis made a slow, solemn journey to retirement today, accompanied by astronauts and Nasa workers.

It is a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs’s iconic creation appeared in print. Richard Fitzpatrick looks at the evolution of oneof the most famous fictional characters of our times

Oil giant BP today said it has agreed to sell assets in the US Gulf of Mexico for a total of $5.6bn to an American petroleum firm.

HOW can we be expected to believe Micheál Martin can root out corruption in the Fianna Fáil party when he can’t even identify the ministers who, according to the Mahon Report, launched a “sustained and virulent attack” on the tribunal and questioned “the legality of its inquiries as well as the integrity of its members” when it was investigating Bertie Ahern in 2007 and 2008?

ON July 20, 1969, thousands of people across Ireland sat watching grainy black and white images of men taking their first steps on the moon.

CLAPS and cheers heralded their arrival and while it wasn’t all a song and dance, students plumbed, painted and plastered as they saw a shell transform into a first-ever home for three generations of a family that had lived in a dark shack.

Turned Out Nice

The crew of the last space shuttle has floated out of the International Space Station for the final time.

AS YOU read, Space Shuttle Atlantis stands on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre, its black nose pointed towards the heavens, one last mission beckoning.

CRYOBIOLOGY still belongs to the realms of science fiction, although it has its followers in the US who wish to be frozen immediately after death in anticipation of possible future revival.

Charlotte Church is getting married in the Caribbean.

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

IT’S amazing the damage a few wins can do. The acidic juices that normally rip through my creaking carcass have had nowhere to flow of late.

Spacewalkers’ hi-tech tools proved ineffective when it came to dislodging a bolt interfering with repairs at the Hubble Telescope.

FOR the second straight day, astronauts stepped out on a space walk yesterday to bring a scientific instrument back from the dead on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Spacewalking astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a more commanding view of the cosmos by installing a new hi-tech instrument, then pulled off their toughest job yet: fixing a broken camera.

A pair of spacewalking astronauts stepped outside today to begin demanding repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope, a job made all the more dangerous because of the debris-ridden orbit.

Hopes that the lost city of Atlantis had been found on Google Earth were shattered today.

Kylie Minogue is to make her Middle East debut performance at the opening of the much-hyped Atlantis - The Palm resort in Dubai on Thursday.

Despite almost triple rainfall levels in Dublin in August, Ireland is in no danger of sinking into the sea, an expert claimed today.

ATLANTIS’S astronauts got their spaceship ready for the ride home yesterday, wrapping up a two-week mission to add Europe’s new orbital laboratory to the international space station.

The shuttle Atlantis blasted off today with Europe’s gift to the international space station, a $2bn (€1.6bn) science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail.

Nasa today delayed the launch of space shuttle Atlantis until January after a gauge in the fuel tank failed for the second time in four days.

AN IRISH family which runs one of the country’s biggest optician firms watched in awe yesterday as the space shuttle Discovery blasted off with a loved one on board.

Oil giant BP today offered hopes of a recovery from its recent woes despite a 45% slump in profits.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts took a detour across the US and landed safely in California, ending a two-week mission of construction on the international space station.

NASA planned another attempt to return the US space shuttle Atlantis to Earth today after bad weather in Florida a day earlier kept its seven astronauts in space an extra 24 hours.

Two US astronauts have floated outside the international space station to help fold up a solar wing and kick-start a rotating joint that will help track the sun.

Two astronauts floated outside the international space station today on the first space walk of the year.

A union representing 570 space shuttle programme workers at the Kennedy Space Centre have voted to strike, less than a week before the planned launch of Atlantis.

A NEIGHBOUR of mine has a large garden and about 30 years ago he planted a lot of trees in it. The trees grew well, perhaps a little too well, and he became uneasy about the fact that they were starting to crowd him out. I was called in to give my opinion.

The Day After Tomorrow stars Dennis Quaid stars as climatologist Jack Hall whose warnings of a catastrophic shift in the world’s climate brought about by global warming fall on deaf ears.

On 11/08/2004, we published an article relating to a visit to Ireland by Dr Ulf Erlingsson, who has commented on a possible link between the geography of Ireland and that of Plato's Atlantis.

The National Museum of Ireland today dismissed a Swedish academic’s controversial theory that Ireland is the long-lost kingdom of Atlantis.