# orbital

This year

2023

BusConnects: Three new routes for west Dublin and east Kildare set to begin on Sunday

This latest expansion of the bus network is billed as Phase 5a of TFI’s Bus Network Redesign scheme, which has been underway since 2021.

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Jun 21st 2023, 12:18 PM

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'Please come aboard': SpaceX crew enter International Space Station after historic journey

Docking took place at 3.16pm Irish time and the astronauts entered some three hours later.

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May 31st 2020, 6:42 PM

Dublin's Metrolink will only go north - south until at least 2035

The plan does not envisage the system going west of the city.

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Mar 23rd 2018, 6:05 AM

We don't remember Electric Picnic ever looking like this

This is the festival of our dreams to be fair.

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Jun 10th 2013, 4:05 PM

Orbital hung out with Stephen Hawking at the Paralympics opening ceremony

The Hartnoll brothers met one of the world’s great minds backstage in the Olympic Stadium last night.

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Aug 30th 2012, 4:12 PM

The Cure and Sigur Rós set to headline Electric Picnic 2012

The line-up for the Laois festival announced this afternoon also includes Elbow, The xx, The Roots, Hot Chip Ed Sheeran and Bell X1.

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Mar 1st 2012, 12:15 PM