IRELAND’S adopted astronaut returned to Earth after 101 days in space yesterday to an emotional reunion with his wife and children.

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.

A STUDY suggesting that women who take a new ‘wonder drug’ to treat breast cancer are at a greater risk of developing cardiac problems than originally thought has been disputed by an Irish cancer expert.