When women return to work after the long Easter weekend, you’d think they’d arrive in citrus colours, in keeping with the season. Or pastels. Or neons. 

A screenshot from last night's weather report that sums up Irish weather is doing the rounds today.

Did everyone have a good Easter weekend?

Easter Weekend is upon us and numerous 1916 commemorations are getting under way across Ireland - but do you actually know the faces of the seven leaders who were executed in 1916?

Publicans have lashed out at “archaic” laws that will see pubs shut today — even though matchgoers at Ireland versus Switzerland will be able to enjoy a pint.

One of the biggest racing crowds of the year is expected to be boosted next weekend by confirmation that the Fairyhouse Grand National meeting will be AP McCoy’s last Irish engagement before his retirement.

Emotions will run high this Easter Weekend for Irish marathon runner Bobby Hilliard, ahead of his 26-mile re-run of the Boston Marathon course.

The new ‘Nicolas Roche Performance Cycling Team’ has announced its roster for the coming season with an eight-man line-up comprising some of the most talented underage riders in the country.

Wing forward Bryan Cullen will captain Dublin when they take on defending champions Cork in Sunday's Allianz Football League Division 1 final.

COUNTY Kerry will once again host the first major stage race of the Irish Cycle racing calendar in 2011 when the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan takes place over the Easter Weekend from Good Friday, April 22 to Easter Monday April 25.

TINO HAAKMAN, runner-up in 2008 and 11th overall last year, will return to Kerry to lead the West Frisia Combilift team from Holland in the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan 4-Day International Cycle Race over the Easter weekend.

JAAN KIRSIPUU powered his way up the finishing straight to thrill the fans who thronged Cahirciveen at the end of the longest stage in this year’s FBD Insurance Rás yesterday.

TWO of Ireland’s leading hopes for the FBD Insurance Rás, Brian Kenneally and Paul Griffin, have been out of sorts recently but expect to go to the line in Kilcullen for Sunday’s opening stage to Wexford town with all guns blazing.

BRIAN KENNEALLY goes to the line for today’s opening stage of the Kerry Group Rás Mumhan in Killorglin with his sights firmly set on a third victory in the race.

The FTSE 100 Index lost more ground today in a drifting session as lingering concerns over US earnings weighed on investors.

CIARAN POWER’S performances in the Kerry Mountains during Rás Mumhan over the Easter Weekend could strengthen his claim to a place on the Irish team for the Olympic road race.

Twenty-two people have been killed in Easter road cashes over the last five years, it emerged today.

Jelena Prokopcuka is set to defend her BUPA Great Edinburgh title on May 7.

BOB and Harvey Weinstein returned to the box-office lead as Scary Movie 4 debuted with $41 million (€33.44m), the first number-one opening for the company founded by the former Miramax bosses.

A six-year-old boy tonight became the latest victim of an Easter weekend of carnage on the North’s roads.

The chairman of the Road Safety Authority renewed his appeal for drivers to take care on the roads today – one of the busiest motoring days of the year.

Gardaí have handed out penalty points to around 3,700 drivers during the first week of the extended system, it emerged today.

The Easter weekend road safety campaign is due to get underway at midnight.