Skibbereen sees moon jump over the cows

For a few moments yesterday, a little part of West Cork was transported to the cosmos.

As National Digital Week got underway in Skibbereen, a room crammed with secondary school students did something many might wrongly assume is beyond them — they adored science.

Then again, the science in question was that which allowed a space probe to land on a comet hurtling through space, with an Irishman at the controls.