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A tiny meteorite has made a huge impact on the Lunar surface and NASA is currently hunting for it.

A 15 year old student from Donegal in Ireland has won the 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition. Her version of the Google logo will appear on google.ie tomorrow

One of Ireland's national treasures, the 1,200 year old Book of Kells, as been digitised for the iPad for the first time. We were at the app's launch

As Ireland celebrates St. Patrick's Day Twitter's Ireland staff set up the company's office in Dublin.

St. Munchin’s College's Patrick Horan wins 2012's Doodle 4 Google Ireland competition - the second win for the Limerick Secondary School.

People around the world will be able watch Dublin's St. Patrick's Day Parade live online this year. RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster will be live-streaming the parade through their free international on demand player.

Here in Ireland we will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in the usual web (we’ll let you guess what that is) but if you can’t make it to Dublin for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade then you can take your frustration out with the Angry Birds St. Patrick’s Day special.

iPhone and Android users will be able to watch live streaming video Dublin City’s St Patrick’s Day parade thanks to their updated iPhone and Android apps.

What place does Irish hold in the social media age? Is it being drowned out on Twitter or Facebook by English or will social media cultivate the language?

You would think that the Irish would have little reason to celebrate the son of a European tax collector but, come March 17, that is just what the country, and the world, will do. To find out what is happening online we spoke to the organisers of the 2011 St Patrick’s Festival to see what digital events are planned this March.