While traditional religious practices may be on the decline, pilgrimages — meditative, multi-day hikes — are experiencing a ...

Tens of thousands of tourists flock to Ireland each year for the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. But in the midst of the concerts ...

In his writing, Patrick recounts how he was captured by raiders and sold into slavery in Ireland. Six years later, he ...

In addition, McKenzie set out to walk from Ireland to Rome to better understand his patron saint’s own pilgrimage to Rome ... me that I was on the right path and that he was interceding for ...

With just four games before the start of Northern Ireland's World Cup qualifying campaign, Michael O'Neill faces several ...

When Caelan Doris was a baby his father, Andy, spent 40 days and 40 nights living on the top of the Croagh Patrick Mountain, in County Mayo, interviewing pilgrims.

The miraculous origin of the spring at Lourdes in France is well-documented, but in Ireland, there are about 3,000 holy wells ...

Sitting on the cold ground outside a church, I felt the world spinning out of control. My body and mind had reached their ...

James Bacon took some time off on St Patrick’s day following Dublin Comic Con and a weekend of non-stop comics to sit down ...