The Fiscal Treaty is a recipe for extending and deepening stagnation across the Eurozone and the EU. By Michael Taft.

Workers at Vita Cortex yesterday evening (2 May) voted unanimously to accept a severance deal with their former employer, bringing to an end the sit-in at the Vita Cortex plant in Cork that has been ongoing since 16 December last.

The workers will continue to occupy the plant for another fortnight, to ensure the money promised in the settlement is paid.

Below, Vincent responds to some of last night's tweets. {jathumbnailoff}

Minister Ruairi Quinn has not yet finalised his (ambitious) plans for school patronage, but the usual suspects have, for some time already, been banging a drum on behalf schools owned by the Catholic Church and/or professing a Catholic 'ethos'.

On Tonight with Vincent Browne,  Irish Times religious affairs correspondent Patsy McGarry, Marie Collins, who was abused by a paedophile priest as a child, and Fr Joe McDonald will discuss the new allegations about a 1975 church inquiry into paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth brought to light by a BBC documentary, and Cardinal Sean Brady's insistence that he will not resign his position. 

There will also be a feature interview with Cardinal S

After the jump, Cardinal Sean Brady's response to the BBC's 'The Shame of the Catholic Church' documentary. {jathumbnailoff}

The Labour party was formed a century ago. In that time it has been as famous for its failures as its successes, but now that it has been overwhelmingly placed in government what does the party need to become if it is to meet the needs of the Irish people? In Making the Difference? a selection of historians, journalists and political figures have been brought together to look over Labour's record and answer that question. By Ed O'Hare.

Of all the State-covered institutions for which information is available, IBRC (formerly Anglo) has – proportionately - by far the largest number of staff earning €100,000 a year or more. By Eadaoin O'Sullivan.

143 employees at State owned IBRC are earning €100,000 or more a year, according to information released in the Dáil to Fianna Fáil Finance Spokesman Michael McGrath.

RTÉ's handling of the Sunday Times story that Ireland could apply to the IMF for a loan in the event of a No vote in the Fiscal Treaty was both timorous and unprofessional. By Vincent Browne.

On Sunday last the Sunday Times carried a story by journalist Mark Paul stating: “the IMF . . . has told the Sunday Times there is ‘no reason’ why Ireland could not ask it for another loan when the current bailout programme ends in 2013.

On Tonight with Vincent Browne, Declan Ganley, Noirin Hegarty, Eamon Ryan and Ursula Halligan will take a look at tonight's TV3 debate on the EU Fiscal Treaty. Vincent Browne blogs in advance of the programme. {jathumbnailoff}