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.

Students training to become Church of Ireland ministers will stage a protest outside Dublin’s US embassy today.

DISGRUNTLED staff at FÁS will escalate their protests, if promotions continue to be tied to decentralisation, union officials warned last night.

SIPTU has served two weeks’ strike notice of industrial action on FÁS over the Government’s plans to decentralise the employment agency to Birr, Co Offaly.