A rescue of Bus Eireann from potential financial collapse will not be found on workers' backs, union chiefs have said.

The power-sharing administration in Belfast is facing a major crisis after a vital Assembly debate on implementing welfare reforms began without a last minute political deal.

Barbara Scully was 10 when her mother dragged her to Jesus Christ Superstar. It was a show that started a hilarious musical journey for the duo. Forty years later, they returned with Barbara’s teenage daughters

The 2014 season wasn’t without its fair share of disputes and furore. But just where does the likes of Shane Enright’s non-black card, Parade-gate and Stephen O’Keeffe’s safety-defying save from Anthony Nash rank in the GAA’s biggest on-field Championship controversies since 2000?

Simon Callow is on a nine-week run of one-night stands with his one-man play. He talks to Colette Sheridan

The proposal by Agriculture & Defence Minister Simon Coveney to reform and regulate fur farming rather than ban it is typical of the Fine Gael led government’s "Pontius Pilate" like attitude to animal welfare.

Thousands are expected to congregate in rural east Limerick tonight and tomorrow to witness a re-enactment of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus.

Pope Francis, marking Palm Sunday in a packed St Peter’s Square, ignored his prepared homily and spoke entirely off-the-cuff in a remarkable departure from practice.

Pope Francis has marked Palm Sunday in a packed St Peter’s Square, ignoring his prepared homily and speaking entirely off the cuff.

Come on, where does the corruption stop — €240,000 plus 6pc pension plan for the top person in Rehab?

A review of the workload that has brought thousands of primary school principals to breaking point is urgently needed, their union claims.

It's strange that there are no really ancient yew trees in Ireland.

THE MINUTE I got into the taxi I could see by the way the back of his head was dug into his shoulders that he was a disgruntled taxi driver from central casting.

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

There are 43 staff at Bank of Ireland earning over €300,000 a year, figures released by the Department of Finance have confirmed.

In response to your Page One article last Monday, Micheál Martin appears to be applying the same logic to the issue of abortion as the Government does to personal insolvency, the dreaded moral hazard.

It was the calm after the storm.

COUNTY Court Judge Adams, who was a native of Castletownbere, Co Cork, was a noted raconteur.

CHILDREN’S Minister Barry Andrews said when he was given the report on the sex abuse scandal in Cloyne diocese he did not read it — just passed it on to the HSE.

ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin yesterday led the Way of the Cross procession through Dublin’s Phoenix Park as part of the Good Friday ceremonies.

THE Government has consistently misled the country about Shannon and the ending of the airport’s service to Heathrow.

Irish actor James Nesbitt has signed on to portray Pontius Pilate in The Passion, a drama about the life of Christ.

I GOT INTO an argument with someone the other day about the life expectancy of trees.

SAINT Veronica has been sidelined and Judas gets a prominent spot in the new Stations of the Cross, announced last night by Pope Benedict.

The treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay detention camp by the US government was today compared to that of Jesus Christ when he was sentenced to death.

TAXPAYERS forked out over €3 million in garda costs to police the Shell gas terminal in Mayo for less than four months, new figures reveal.

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.

IN what has to be the understatement of the year, IBEC - the organisation that represents big business interests of this country - described the bizarre events in Irish Ferries as “not normal in Irish industrial relations.”

Roman soldiers bearing torches and spears emerged from an olive grove, shoving and kicking a stumbling Jesus in a Passion play in his boyhood town, starring a local construction worker.

It may be subtitled, and it may be staggeringly gory, yet Christians across the United States also expect that seeing Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ will be a profoundly moving experience.

THE decision by the former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave to decline an invitation to assist the sub-committee on the Barron Report is regrettable.

Rod Steiger, the beefy, intense actor who won the Oscar as best actor of 1967 for his role as the unrelenting Southern police chief in In the Heat of the Night, died today. He was 78.

The strife-torn Wembley national stadium project lurched into new controversy today when a bitterly-angry Ken Bates quit as vice-chairman and aimed a volley of parting shots at the Football Association, Sports Minister Kate Hoey and former colleagues.