Esther McCarthy selects six of the best from the feast of Gallic cinema on offer on Leeside

The 31st Cork French Film Festival's opening night film Proxima was the French film nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

January 1st 2000 would remind you of the old Ernie and Bert gag.

Your round-up of the stories behind the headlines from Day 14 of #RWC2019

New satellite images published by the European Space Agency show an increase in air pollution in the Brazilian Amazon as fires burned in the region last month.

The country's first ever National Space Strategy has been launched.

All schools are to be notified of their Special Needs Assistants (SNA) allocations by next week.

Having flown higher than any Cork flag in history, the blood and bandages that once orbited the globe have returned to Earth.

The future for Irish space exploration is safe, considering the remarkable achievement of four secondary school students from Athlone, Co Westmeath.

Set up in 2014, SRS specialises in high-performance software for wireless systems, writes Trish Dromey

A team of young coders in West Cork have developed a computer programme which is set to be tested on the International Space Station in the coming weeks.

Calls have been made to establish a national space agency to develop space policy for Ireland and to co-ordinate the sector in line with strategic goals.

Juno McEnroe talks to Junior Minister John Halligan about the potential of our space technology sector, the future of the Coalition, and his relationship with Leo Varadkar

THERE are two ways that children can be taught science, technology, engineering, and maths: They can be pointed to text books and bored senseless or they can engage with the co-called Stem technologies in an exciting, hands-on manner.

A Donegal start-up is about to launch its search and rescue software for drones, writes Trish Dromey

British astronaut Tim Peake is to go into space a second time.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

A European spacecraft that broke off contact as it attempted to land on Mars may have jettisoned its parachute too early, investigators believe.

After 12 years of hurtling through space in pursuit of a comet, the Rosetta probe ended its mission with a slow-motion crash onto the icy surface of the alien world it was sent out to study.

The month of October is somewhat special this year as Ireland welcomes its first National Space Week, running from October 3rd – 8th and coordinated by Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork. 

Irish innovators are set to boldly go where few have gone before as growing numbers get a chance to develop technologies bound for space.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta space probe has located its lost Philae lander, wedged in a "dark crack" on the side of a comet.

 

While Europeans were focused on the Brexit vote, others, further west, were gazing toward a more celestial horizon, and a new world of commercial possibilities.

The European Space Agency is set to double its Irish workforce, creating more than 1,000 space technology jobs over the next four years.