Martin Houston gave a superb presentation at Monday night's Lecture in Dublin about the future of spacecraft propulsion systems. We hope to have it online in a few days under the "Lecture Webcasts" on our website www.astronomy.ie. I'll issue an announcement when it is ready. TV3 interviewed Martin on Monday morning as did Pat Kenny on Radio 1 which you can still hear online at http://www.radio1.ie/morning/patkenny/ (in RealPlayer click "play" then "seek to" and then key in 1hour 23min 10sec to go straight to the start of the interview). There are 2 Astronomy Ireland Public Lectures tonight (Wed. Sept. 10) in Cork and Dublin: 7pm DUBLIN: "DEATH FROM SPACE" by Tony Ryan B.Sc., Honorary Secretary of Astronomy Ireland and one of Ireland's foremost experts on meteorites who will discuss the threat from asteroids. Venue: Ballymun Public Library. All welcome. Admission FREE. 8pm CORK: "CREATIONIST COSMOLOGY" by Mark Sweetnam B.Sc., director of Schull Planetarium, graduated from Trinity College Dublin (mathematics). An evaluation of the creation of the universe. Venue: Jury's Hotel, Western Road, Cork. ALL WELCOME. Admission 5euro ASTROLOGY ON MARIAN FINUCANE RTE Radio 1 Friday 9am-10am After my lecture last Wednesday to the Irish Skeptics Society I have been invited to a panel discussion on the Marian Finucane show on Friday morning to discuss astrology. All I know at present is that there should be about 8 people involved several of whom are astrologers. It should be a lively debate. If you don't have a radio you can listen online at http://www.rte.ie/smiltest/radio_new.smil If you miss the show go to http://www.radio1.ie/morning/marianfinucane/ and click on "Friday" Astronomy Evening Classes for Beginners: A steady stream of bookings have been coming in for our popular evening classes given by Dave McCann (assistant editor of our magazine). The new booking form is now available on our website www.astronomy.ie Click on Evening Classes and you'll see it, along with a course outline too. ===== David Moore BSc FRAS, Chairman, Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 5. Editor, "Astronomy & Space" magazine. ASTRONOMY SHOP: open until 6pm Mon.-Sat. Tel (01) 847 0777. Fax (01) 847 0771. WWW: http://www.astronomy.ie (Subscribe FREE to AI's Events emailing list) Email: info@astronomy.ie