We live in a fearful world. At our most fanciful, we might, in the past, have imagined a cure for cancer or life found on Mars being our global “where were you when” moment, writes Alison O'Connor.

Fiann Ó Nualláin reflects on the customs and celebrations associated with Saint Brigid's Day.

Last week, Kilgarvan’s finest, Danny Healy-Rae, TD, called in the Dáil for a permit system that would allow a fellow down a few pints in a rural pub, and then drive home with immunity from the law.

I’ll say this much for the folks at WeWork. They have been pretty good at talking up their product.

I wish if we had shown even 10%

I think if we had shown even 10% of the outrage that we showed towards Notre Dame in Paris, the planet we are living in today would have been a different place.

An unmanned spacecraft India launched last month has begun orbiting the Moon before it lands on the far side to search for water.

Etosha, Namibia‘s ‘great white place’ and ‘lake of mothers tears’, is one of the world’s great nature reserves.

It’s been revealed that a space mission was carrying a cargo of dehydrated microscopic lifeforms known as tardigrades.

The prospect of life on Mars made the front page of the Cork Examiner 50 years ago.

What do the French and American governments, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Tesla’s Elon Musk and Virgin’s Richard Branson have in common?

'So many houses in Ireland hadn’t water or sewerage and you were watching man do something you could hardly imagine'

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.

It's hard to build a reputation in gaming, but it can be even harder to keep one.

Communications firm Edelman has promoted Emma Williams, Jennifer Hyland and David Callaghan, who have been appointed as directors on foot of significant new business wins.

As consumers we are becoming more aware of the impact our purchases are making on both our finances and the planet.

Four secondary school students investigating ways of growing crops in space are to have their project tested on a low gravity flight.

Four secondary school students investigating ways of growing crops in space are to have their project tested on a low gravity flight.

It’ll be beamed back to us much more efficiently than it can be transmitted via underground cables, writes Niall Smith.

One-off housing is not a big issue in relation to climate change but it is arguably a contributor to the rapid decline in the fortunes of rural Ireland, writes Michael Clifford.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has measured and recorded what it believes to be the first ever 'marsquake'.

It has finally happened. We have gone from zero to 60 in no time at all.

Inspired by the Roman god of war, Fiann Ó Nualláin is determined to do battle against pests.

According to the organisation's chief human capital officer Robert Gibbs, who was speaking in Dublin, Irish people possess several traits that make them ideal NASA employees.

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

In space, no one can hear you (on) Steam. That opening line isn’t worth a euro, but then again neither is Spaceport Hope, our featured budget game this week. Spaceport Hope will only set you back 10 space credits, or a mere 90 cents on Steam, writes Ronan Jennings.

Oh boy. How much more polarised can we become, without actually relocating to the dwindling icebergs at opposite ends of the planet?

Some of the metrics we use to measure our world — distance, speed, population, wealth — stretch our capacity to understand.

The Sea, The Sea was the unforgettable title of a novel by Iris Murdoch

When he first got into politics Leo Varadkar was seen as a maverick, he was candid, but he quickly became regarded as prioritising spin over substance, writes Michael Clifford.

IN ANCIENT lore it was said that a shooting star was a “sign of a soul going to heaven”.

A visitor from Mars looking at reports of the murder during a one-against-15 fistfight of a journalist in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate could be forgiven for perceiving Turkey’s president, Recep Erdogan, as a champion of human rights and press freedom prepared to leave no stone unturned in exposing the killing of a writer by a totalitarian state.

Swapping the hoops and green shirts of Páirc Uí Chaoimh from earlier in the day for uniform black tie in City Hall later that night, it was quite the parade of football luminaries who took to the stage to pay further tribute to Liam Miller at the gala dinner in his honour last Tuesday.

Serious funding is required if the State is to produce the kind of education needed for a... dynamic economy, writes Michael Clifford

Sligo artist Dan Leydon has already claimed a Champions League three-in-a-row this season, but now the Liverpool fan hopes Real Madrid stop following in his footsteps.

I once received a card of a cartoon stick man standing on top of a flattened cartoon stick woman.

Hypatia, the first great female astronomer and mathematician, lived in Egypt in the 5th Century AD. 

It was inspiring to see the stars wear black on the red carpet to support the victims of sexual violence, but what happens to the ordinary people who stand up and say, ‘Me Too’?

It’s 2018 and The Future isn’t quite as exciting as I thought it would be, writes Louise O’Neill.

He describes himself “an actor who can move rather than an actor who can dance”. But as much as Ciarán Bermingham, the dynamic dame in this year’s Everyman panto, loves to move to the beat, it’s not easy being surrounded by lithe professionals dancers.

Donald Trump has said he wants to send man back to the moon - and on to Mars.