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Boost for Leitrim as over 150 jobs announced
This cruise ship is taking 1,000 super rich passengers on a controversial journey
This tiny robot octopus is powered by its own gas
The average commuter adds 800 calories a week to their diet, a new report has found
Scientists have found a new planet that bears an uncanny resemblance to Earth
There may not be such thing as a "healthy obese"
New painkiller is as powerful as morphine - but without the dangerous side-effects
Frank Feighan wants the European Medicines Agency to move from Canary Wharf to Leitrim
Someone has just worked out what the Irish ate for breakfast over 2,000 years ago
CERN lab investigating bizarre "human sacrifice" video filmed on site
Man challenges planning permission for 'slurry power plant' beside his proposed family home
Here are 40 amazing photos of Mars taken by the Nasa Orbiter
Is sex after alcohol different to sex after cannabis? According to a study, yes
A 400-year-old Greenland shark has been found to be the world's oldest vertebrate
A 25-year-old PhD student at Trinity has just discovered that sharks used to eat their own young
Look out your window tonight - there's a special meteor shower due over Ireland
Irish women who give birth at home are much more likely to breastfeed
There were more patients on trolleys last month than in any July in the past decade
Increasing numbers of older people are suffering from eating disorders
Inside Area 404 - Facebook's heavy-duty tech lab that Zuckerberg isn't even allowed enter
New study shows tigers, lions and other carnivores becoming endangered as prey dwindles
Kids on Amish farms are less likely to get asthma - a new study explains why
Here's what happened today: Saturday
Today is the 25th anniversary of the public internet in Ireland
Ireland's researchers are punching above their weight despite 'below-average investment'
FactCheck: Is there faster broadband on the moon than in Roscommon?
Three dead after treatment at 'natural' clinic in Germany
A new cute baby spider monkey has been born at Fota
'Plastered' tourist fatally injures Pinko the famous dancing flamingo
New study finds last woolly mammoths died of thirst
Woman dies after 'side effects from contraceptive pill were not treated'
A new nuclear power station will be built 250 km from the Irish coast
Just one hour physical activity a day could undo damage from 8 hours sitting around
Dutch men are the tallest in the world (but the Irish aren't so short themselves)
New 80 million-year-old 'giant thief' dinosaur found in Argentina
Japanese warning on foreskin surgery after series of surgical blunders
These pictures of pandas will improve your day
Looking to meet people online? Then be a humble, "real" person
Some enormous pharma companies aren't happy about a deal that could save taxpayers millions
Heading to the beach? A new warning has been issued over this jellyfish