Met the proverbial — and in this case corporeal — man in the street the day before the league quarter-finals. The man in the street in question is a keen punter, often to be espied going in and out of his local Ladbrokes.

Drawings of human excrement having sex have gone on show at Tate Britain — alongside performances by a bearded female artist who lives in a nudist colony and changed her name to Spartacus.

NAYD director Orlaith McBride applauds the rise of community drama, reports Pádraic Killeen

POPE Benedict XVI has made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus Christ, tackling one of the most controversial issues in Christianity in a new book.

An Irish actress will appear alongside Stephen Fry in a cliff-hanger end to a new drama series to air on ITV early next year, it was confirmed today.