Irish brain surgeons were operating in the eighth century in a remote area of Ireland. That's according to stunning evidence discovered at an ancient grave in County Donegal.

A nasty case of E coli bacterial infection has forced Elton John to postpone his final date of his Red Piano world tour in Ireland at Dublin's O2 venue.

“A Beautiful Mind” star Jennifer Connelly admits she has no projects lined up for when she finishes filming the upcoming movie “What’s Wrong With Virginia?”

The Irish police force has been awarded an international 'Ig Nobel' award from Harvard University. Turns out the gardai issued 50 driving tickets to a Polish person called Prawo Jazdy.

Former President Bill Clinton will personally take part in a session on Northern Ireland at his annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) summit this week in New York.

The Giants Causeway, one of Ireland's most important heritage landscapes, is at risk of being swallowed up by the sea. Experts say that sea levels at the Irish coast could rise by one meter (3.3 feet) by the end of this

Hundreds of people have reported sightings of a huge fireball in the skies over Ireland. Astronomy Ireland said that they are receiving hundreds of calls from people, many from Northern Ireland, who say they spotted an explosion in the air around 9 p.m. Irish time Thursday.

The prophecies of the Irish saint Malachy, the 12th century bishop of Armagh who predicted all the popes have thrilled and dismayed readers for centuries. He has stated there will be only one more pope after the current one, and during his reign comes the end of the world.

Irish people urgently need to pull together says former Irish president Mary Robinson. A self-confessed optimist, Robinson said that the Celtic Tiger had pushed Irish people apart.

The destructive fungal disease – the same one that caused the potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s – that first sprung up in plants in Rhode Island and New York has spread even further in the northeast to Massachusetts farms.

Irish doctors may hold the key to early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. An early diagnosis could help stave off the debilitating effects of the disease. Irish researchers were able to correctly identify 95 percent of 345 people who had progressed from mild cognitive impairment to early Alzheimer's.

New York has been hit by Irish Famine disease. The destructive fungal blight is wiping out tomato and potato plants across the state and much of the Northeast. The technical terms is "late blight," but it's the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s.

Friday is World Environment Day. This year the chosen city to celebrate this is Mexico City. So, what can we do that is “green” and Mexican? Taco’s with Salsa Verde of course!

A public tasting of Cadbury's - the favorite chocolate in Ireland and Britain - and good old American-made Hershey's chocolate resulted in big win for the British-made sweet stuff. But was it an honest win?

A team of Dublin scientists think they have the key to solving a mystery that has baffled astronomy for years

Failure to act now will create a freak planet of clones and humans and a booming market in spare parts for humans.

A team of Irish scientists has come up with an unusual way of reducing global warming

Bryan Sykes is a professor of human genetics at Oxford University and also operates a company that traces human genetic backgrounds. Think of him as a CSI detective for history buffs. Sykes tackles the Irish genetic code in his new book "Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland.

Every year since 1901, the international Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. There is an elite group of Irish and Northern Irish scholars and activists who have won this prestigious award.

It says a lot about the glacial slowness of some religious and political debates in the U.S. that "Inherit the Wind", the famed 1955 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee now playing on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, seems more relevant today than the era in which it was written.

BOB Geldof pioneered the idea of rockers uniting in a global effort for a good cause through his original Live Aid concerts in July of 1985 to highlight the famine in Ethiopia, but the Irish activist is none too pleased that Al Gore has honed in on his territory by organizing a similar event this summer to remind folks that we've got a global warming crisis going on.

Gore's Live Earth shows, set for nine cities, including London and New York, on July 7, amount to nothing more than "just an enormous pop concert," Geldof said. And couldn't our former veep have come up with a more original name?

"It sounds like Live Aid.

REMEMBER we told you a few weeks back that Live Aid founder Bob Geldof was none too pleased at Al Gore's attempt to stage a similar global musical event to highlight the effects of global warming? "Why is Gore actually organizing (the shows)? To make us aware of the greenhouse effect? Everybody has known about that problem for years," was how Sir Bob put it at the time. Gore, with all due respect of course, has responded to Geldof's complaints, and says the Live Earth concerts that will be staged around the world on July 7 will be a "wake-up call for the world."

"We will have very specific goals that will be very significant and hard-hitting.

FORMER VP and current green globetrotter Al Gore spoke in Ireland last Saturday about global warming and the environment, and told the audience at a conference in Dublin that the Irish need to step up to the plate.

"Ireland, with its successful business model and unique political positioning, has a key role to play among developed nations in driving the environmental agenda," Gore said at the Royal College of Surgeons to 400 business leaders and other VIPs, including Bono, whom he had a private audience with before the event got underway.

Nobel Laureate Gore's speech was titled "Thinking Green: Economic Strategy for the 21st Century.

Outraged environmentalists are calling for the immediate sacking of the North's Environment Minister Sammy Wilson of the Democratic Unionist Party after his controversial decision to ban a new advertising campaign on climate change. Wilson, who does not believe that mankind is to blame for global warming, blocked a series of TV and radio ads urging viewers to reduce their carbon output and use less energy in the home. The minister said he was not prepared to allow "insidious New Labor propaganda" about the impact of climate change to be screened on Ulster Television.

TWO Irish university graduates will spend the next six months receiving an invaluable education in two of New York's most prestigious teaching hospitals while also leaving their mark on medical history.Martin Downes, 32, and Cork woman Leagh Powell, 23, arrived in New York last month to participate in a six month research program; Powell with Weill Cornell Medical College and Downes with Mount Sinai School of Medicine.The FAS Science Challenge Program, organized by FAS (the Irish National Training and Employment Authority) and headed up by John Cahill, affords 43 Irish graduates an opportunity to come to the U.

I always look forward to the report that comes from the American Dialect Society each January. They are the ones who name the buzzword of the year.

This year's word is "subprime," which became a dreaded adjective in some households financed through questionable mortgages.