Stars
# stars - Monday 13 May, 2013
Check out TG4′s spectacular tribute to Jonny Sexton and Isa Nacewa
The channel made a video to mark the players’ imminent departures.
Glamour, drama and offbeat: 6 facts about the Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival begins this week and runs until 26 May.
8 things your smartphone makes you do
The phones and their pesky data made us do it. Swear.
# stars - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
The Premier League team of the week
Check out who made the cut this time around, as we single out the weekend’s most impressive performers.
# stars - Monday 31 December, 2012
The Premier League team of the week
We separate the great from the good following another round of cross-channel action.
# stars - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
2012: The year in space exploration
Landing on Mars, meteor showers and fixing the space station with a toothbrush – it’s been quite a year.
# stars - Monday 24 December, 2012
The Premier League team of the week
Check out who made the cut in our pick of England’s finest footballers over the past few days.
# stars - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
The Premier League Team of the Week
Featuring Norwich’s star Irish duo and the architects behind Arsenal’s stunning display last night.
# stars - Saturday 15 December, 2012
Column: Why it’s important to look at the stars – literally
It’s good to be curious about a world outside our own, because being inquisitive in the past has gotten us where we are today, writes Conor Farrell.
# stars - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
The Premier League team of the week
Check out who impressed us following another dramatic week of action in England’s top flight.
# stars - Thursday 18 October, 2012
Opinion: The international football team of the week
There were some phenomenal matches this week, and a number of stunning performances to boot.
# stars - Wednesday 17 October, 2012
Earth-sized planet found just outside solar system
Astronomers have found the closest planet in location and size to the Earth circling a star in the system Alpha Centauri.
# stars - Thursday 11 October, 2012
Astronomers find diamond planet twice the size of Earth
The planet is made up mainly of graphite and diamond and was spotted zooming around a nearby star.
# stars - Thursday 16 August, 2012
Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake to go head to head… on the cricket field?
The Sydney Sixers are looking to add some Jamaican gold to their line-up after the Melbourne Stars approached the 100m sprint champion
# stars - Friday 10 August, 2012
Tonight’s massive Euromillions jackpot MUST be won
There’s €190 million up for grabs…
# stars - Thursday 9 August, 2012
Beyoncé and Jay-Z top best-paid celeb couple list
Plus, we take a look at the highest paid celebrities under the age of 30… we’re not at all jealous of these youngsters, honestly.
Meteors to rain down on Earth over coming week
Eyes to the sky, Astronomy Ireland are expecting a celestial firework show this weekend.
# stars - Thursday 7 June, 2012
Legends of yore: here’s our European Championships Best XI
We’ve picked what we consider to be the greatest eleven players to ever grace the tournament. Do you agree?
# stars - Monday 23 April, 2012
Peaches Geldof continues family tradition of unusual names
Astala might come from the Norwegian word for ‘love’ or, according to new mum and sister to Fifi Trixibelle, Pixie and Tiger Lily, it’s a Jewish name.
# stars - Monday 26 March, 2012
Bright stars: What to see in the sky tonight
Jupiter, Venus and a thin slice of crescent moon to be highly visible at 8.30pm.
# stars - Thursday 29 December, 2011
Education minister welcomes students’ report on Junior Cert reform
The Irish Second Level Student’s Union sent a report to Education and Skills Minister, Ruairà Quin, on the proposed changes to the current Junior Certificate examination system.
# stars - Thursday 22 December, 2011
Newly-discovered ‘roasted’ planets may provide clues about Earth’s future demise
The two Earth-sized planets were discovered by a NASA team in the Kepler-20 star system.
# stars - Friday 25 November, 2011
Poll: Which RTÉ TV star would you like to see on a stamp?
Three RTÉ TV personalities have been chosen to front special commemorative stamps – who else on RTÉ TV should get one?
# stars - Wednesday 31 August, 2011
Meteor hunt begins after fireball lands ‘on west of Ireland’
Anybody who finds fragments of the meteorite could make thousands of euro, experts say. So what are we looking for?
# stars - Monday 29 August, 2011
Take 5: Monday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
WATCH: Physicists recreate the formation of the Milky Way
See that great big swirl there? That’s our home. An international team have used Swiss supercomputers to replay its creation.
# stars - Monday 25 April, 2011
Iran claims to have uncovered second cyber attack
A follow-up to the notorious Stuxnet worm – known as ‘Stars’ – is apparently uncovered by Iranian scientists.
# stars - Wednesday 20 October, 2010
Today’s awesome space image
The Hubble Telescope has captured another cracker, this time of a spiral-shaped galaxy.















































