Who's calling? It's space - The Nasa astronaut who rang a Kinsale pub from the ISS

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

Who's calling? It's space - The Nasa astronaut who rang a Kinsale pub from the ISS

Unless, of course, the pub in question is the Tap Tavern in Kinsale where Mary O’Neill reigns and the astronaut is Dan Tani, married to a Corkwoman and a regular at the Tap when space-time — and Nasa — permits.

“If you know Mary at the Tap Tavern, you have got to say hello on a regular basis, so when I couldn’t drop by, I gave a call,” said Mr Tani, who is in Cork for the International Space Studies Program being hosted by Cork Institute of Technology.

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