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"Lady Gaga also added another layer of interpretation to this story by casting the sinful woman as a traitor in a love triangle involving the Magdalene, Jesus and Judas"

The gospel according to Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga's provocative retellings of the Easter story in her songs bear remarkable similarities to events described in two gospels

No chocolate, biscuits, crisps popcorn or sausage sandwiches please

Why you shouldn't feed deer in Phoenix Park (or anywhere else)

Iona Abbey, the island monastery founded off the western coast of Scotland in 563 AD by St Colum Cille

How the Irish helped to create Easter Sunday

The real St Patrick - or is it?

Meet St Patrick's spin doctor

st patricks day

David Bowie on the banks of the Boyne at Slane Castle, Co Meath in 1987. Photo: RTÉ Stills Library

David Bowie's Irish links: music, art, literature and Tipperary

STOP THE COUNT!

One for sorrow, two for joy: why we count magpies

An Margadh Mór – in the local town was considered a big day where rural people sold hens, eggs, geese, turkeys and so on. Photo: RTÉ Stills Department

Do you know these 7 great Irish Christmas traditions?

'Older people are not different to everyone else, and sex is important in older age as well as in youth.' Photo: Getty Images (Stock image - photo posed by models)

Why is society so surprised by older people having sex?

Phoenix Park in Dublin Photo: Getty Images

Why do leaves change colour?

Yeah, I'm a black cat, what about it?

Why Friday 13th superstitions are all in your head

Off his rocker: William Butler Yeats on the porch in Chicago, Illinois, March 1920. Photo: Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images

The story of WB Yeats' Nobel Prize win 100 years ago today

Eithne Pentony tees off in South Africa in 1932. Photo: Pentony Family Collection

The pioneering Irish woman golfer you've never heard of before

For Olivia Rodrigo to insist on her status as teen is to assert the knowledge, wisdom, and power of youth. Photo: Getty Images

How Olivia Rodrigo produced a powerful teen girl album

'Toxic workplaces contribute to stress, lower levels of physical and mental health, turnover and general organisational dysfunction'. Photo: Getty Images (stock image - photo posed by models)

Do you work in a toxic workplace? Here's what you can do about it

Work and careers

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