IT IS seven days post-op, 10pm, and I’m in the upstairs bathroom trying to fix a raised toilet seat to our existing one.

While pleased that the issue of pornography and social networking was highlighted in The Irish Examiner (Oct 15 and 16), I was saddened by the reference to a young 17-year-old woman, still legally a child, as “Slane girl”.

IN June, 2007, then 41-year-old Sarah Primmer, from Plymouth, in England, was awarded £18,000 in compensation for having been bullied at work. The former kebab shop employee had been taunted about her red hair and its perceived, inherent sexual characteristics.

Mel C is finding life as a single mother "difficult".

A man believes he is Jesus Christ.

A man in Australia claims he is Jesus and his partner is Mary Magdalene.

Diarmaid MacCulloch has written a book about silence — contemplative or evasive — in Christianity. Mark Patrick Hederman considers the evidence

Pope Francis stressed the fundamental importance of women in the Catholic Church yesterday, a message hailed as a significant shift from the position of his predecessor Benedict.

Brad Pitt is set to play the man who killed Jesus Christ.

Mel C has not ruled out another Spice Girls reunion after the excitement of performing with the band at the Olympics.

Andrew Lloyd Webber has found the man who will play the lead in 'Jesus Christ Superstar'.

Mel C is to star in a new West End musical production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar'.

I THINK Cáit Ní Cuilleanáin (Letters, August 28) misses the point in relation to the proposed mass boycott.

Jose Saramago, who became the first Portuguese-language winner of the Nobel Literature prize although his popularity at home was dampened by his unflinching support for Communism, blunt manner and sometimes difficult prose style, has died.

SIX years after the release of his mega-selling The Da Vinci Code, the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced that Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, a thriller set over a 12-hour period and featuring Da Vinci Code symbolist Robert Langdon, will come out in September.

THE Vatican might be gearing up for an official call for a boycott of Angels & Demons, Ron Howard’s big-budget follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.

One of the writers who tried to sue for plagiarism over Dan Brown's blockbuster novel 'The Da Vinci Code' has died.

American author Dan Brown did not copy large parts of an earlier book to produce his blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code, the Court of Appeal ruled today.

To determine whether or not the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene were in two limestone boxes discovered in a Jerusalem suburb, the filmmakers of a new documentary turned to statisticians.

LAWYERS for two authors who claim novelist Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code urged Britain’s Court of Appeal yesterday to overturn Brown’s victory in the copyright infringement case.

THE Irish American writer who claims to be the knock-on result of a roll in the hay between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene has been dropped from tonight’s Late Late Show because the topic is too hot for Irish audiences.

Egypt’s culture minister vowed to ban the film The Da Vinci Code for insulting religion and said in comments published today that he would pull the Arabic translation of the novel from store shelves.

India's top court has refused to ban the The Da Vinci Code film, saying no country with Christianity as a dominant religion has taken such a step, a news report said today.

I WISH to condemn the latest attack on the Christian faiths.

DAN BROWN’S novel The Da Vinci Code is just that — a novel, a volume of fiction by a very good fiction writer.

Campaigners on a crusade to debunk the ‘Da Vinci Code’ tonight offered an antidote to the tale claiming that author Dan Brown is taking the public for a ride.

THE stars of The Da Vinci Code put on brave smiles as they graced the red carpet last night hours after the year’s most eagerly-awaited movie received stinging reviews.

Chinese viewers today became the first in the world to see The Da Vinci Code movie, as the controversial tale that challenges a basic premise of Christianity began its global rollout to protests and bad reviews.

Ian McKellen today accused “powerful” people who condemned the film "The Da Vinci Code" of snobbery towards cinema-goers.

The world premiere of the controversial movie The Da Vinci Code will open the 59th Cannes Film Festival today.

Christian groups as far away as South Korea, Thailand and India protested against the movie The Da Vinci Code ahead of tomorrow’s premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Da Vinci Code director Ron Howard has rejected calls for his film to carry a disclaimer making clear it is a work of fiction.

Catholic scholars gathered in Rome today to explore whether the soon-to-be-released film version of The Da Vinci Code will help spread hostile sentiment against the church or provide an opportunity to draw people closer to religion.

A SECRET code has been hidden in a high court judgment by the judge at the centre of The Da Vinci Code copyright trial.

A secret code has been hidden in a UK High Court judgement by the judge at the centre of the Da Vinci Code copyright trial.

He’s been hit with lawsuits and rebuffed by the Vatican, but author Dan Brown says it is not his responsibility to address controversies stirred up by his book, The Da Vinci Code.

ACCORDING to a newly restored Gospel, Judas was actually Christ's best friend and was asked by the Saviour to betray him in order to let Christ fulfil his destiny.

Dan Brown’s evidence denying he had copied parts of his blockbuster novel, The Da Vinci Code, should be viewed with “deep suspicion”, a High Court judge was told today.

An accusation that millionaire author Dan Brown stole the ideas for his blockbuster The Da Vinci Code was a “travesty”, a High Court judge heard today.

DAN BROWN, one of the highest paid authors in history, said yesterday accusations that he had stolen the ideas for his blockbuster, The Da Vinci Code, were "completely fanciful".

THE second instalment of the battle over The Da Vinci Code novel became a whodunnit first row at the High Court in London yesterday.

THE DA VINCI CODE author Dan Brown sat in Britain’s High Court yesterday accused of taking material for his blockbuster conspiracy thriller from a 1982 book about the Holy Grail.

THE secrets of The Da Vinci Code came in for legal scrutiny yesterday at the High Court in London, where multi-millionaire author Dan Brown confronted two historians who claim their work was plundered for his blockbuster novel.