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Shane Ross: Dynasties that used to be at daggers drawn in the Dáil are now fading away into the mists of time
Seán Haughey, son of former taoiseach ­Charlie Haughey, quietly slipped out of Irish politics at November’s election. He had ...
Ireland’s sympathy for Palestinians is not ‘Israelophobia’
Israel’s closure of its embassy in Dublin last month, in response to pro-Palestinian actions by the Irish government, has led ...
Space rock donated by Nasa to Ireland lay in basement three years before being destroyed in fire
A lunar rock collected by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on humanity’s first trip to the Moon in 1969 was accidentally ...
Greek Reporter6d
NASA Apollo 11 Moon Rock Sample Destroyed by Fire in Ireland
The NASA moon rock the US gifted Ireland from the Apollo 11 mission was burned in a fire, according to Ireland's National ...
Irish Central3d
Apollo moon rock gifted to Ireland was destroyed in fire, state papers reveal
Documents released from Ireland's National Archive have revealed that a priceless piece of Apollo mission moon rock donated ...
Moon rock donated to Ireland by Apollo astronauts was destroyed by fire
A priceless piece of lunar rock given to Ireland following a Nasa mission was lost in a fire at Dunsink Observatory, newly ...
RTE Online6d
Day Four: Five other things we learned from the State Papers
There were only three "adequate" Belfast restaurants in 1998, an Apollo 11 lunar rock was destroyed in a fire and Britain's ...
NASA Apollo 11 Moon Rock Was Destroyed in a Fire, Records Reveal
The priceless lunar sample gifted to Ireland from the first moon landing was lost in an observatory blaze in the 1970s.
Jimmy Carter’s Irish intervention facilitated the enormous involvement of his successors
Previous US presidents had not been prepared to risk relations with UK by involvement in Northern Ireland but Carter did not ...
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Priceless moon rock gifted by Nasa destroyed in observatory fire
Irish officials were left red-faced after it emerged a priceless piece of moon rock donated by the US and Nasa had lain in a ...
Irish Examiner7d
State Papers: Priceless moon rock donated to Ireland destroyed in fire
The lunar rock, which originated from the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, was given to President Éamon de Valera by American ambassador JG Moore in 1970. Confidential documents from April 1984 show ...