Shooting stars to set skies alight this weekend

Ireland is to be hit with the biggest celestial storm of the year this weekend with more than 100 shooting stars an hour raining down on the country.

Fireballs and colourful shooting stars will be clearly visible to the naked eye this evening as nature’s light show, the Geminid shower, gets under way.

Astronomer David Moore said the event has grown steadily more spectacular over Irish skies in the past decade.