We have a very, very big outreach here in terms of confessions,” Father Richard Gibbons, who has led the shrine for more than ...

A twenty-minute climb brings you to Mám Éan, the “passage of the birds”, now overlooked by a gaunt statute of St Patrick and ...

From sacred peaks to legendary cliffs, here’s your ultimate bucket list of Ireland’s most awe-inspiring landscapes. Whether ...

This year, my husband and I hiked Croagh Patrick in Westport, Ireland. St. Patrick is believed to have fasted there for 40 days in 441. The tradition of hiking Croagh Patrick started 1,500 years ago.

This year, my husband and I hiked Croagh Patrick in Westport, Ireland. St. Patrick is believed to have fasted there for 40 days in 441. The tradition of hiking Croagh Patrick started 1,500 years ago.

Myth of the snakes The old adage of St. Patrick standing tall on the hilltop of Croagh Patrick, where he banished all the snakes out of Ireland, is a fun legend. However, it’s not true.

In James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, the Dublin Bay region is mirrored by a westerly shadowland or "Echoland!" (FW 13.05): Croagh Patrick and the surrounding Clew Bay area in County Mayo on the west coast ...

It includes early newsreels of shamrock-bearing colleens during World War 1; filmlets about St Patrick’s childhood haunts in Co Down and Croagh Patrick, site of annual pilgrimage; a record of ...

Archbishop Francis Duffy of Tuam put grandparents and the elderly at the heart of his message for the Jubilee Year's "Reek Sunday" pilgrimage at Ireland's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick, on July 27. In ...