It isn’t every day that an Irish publican gets a call from an astronaut on the International Space Station. 

THE waitress in Kinsale’s cosy cafe, Poet’s Corner, confides: “if you were to listen to all the chat and gossip in here, you would have enough material for ten novels.”

A LATE night bus service will operate across Cork city this bank holiday as the city gears up for a recession-proof jazz festival which is expected to generate an estimated €6 million for the local economy.

A live link between an astronaut on board the International Space Station and his Irish in-laws will be televised tomorrow.