From monk culture, to offering a paradise to wildlife, all of our islands hold some very different identities but each tell a ...

See ye when ye get back God willing," was among the tributes on social media to the departing monks of Mount Mellerary. The ...

Off the coast of County Kerry, two jagged islands rise out of the Atlantic Ocean – ruggedly beautiful with centuries of ...

Last weekend as we turned the corner and the huge edifice of Mount Melleray Abbey loomed over us, the bells were still ...

The closure comes almost two centuries after the abbey was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to Ireland ...

From mummies to werewolves to ghosts, ‘The Catholic Handbook’ offers a collection of spiritual and paranormal oddities.

Several pilgrims are expected to visit the site throughout the week, with the order saying that there have been many ...

Irish history and culture have found an audience far beyond our motherland of Ireland and it would do us no harm to remember ...

Ryan Day spent part of last summer in Greece, visiting his wife’s extended family, touring Athens and checking out the caves where monks once sequestered in ... Day is 2-0 against the Fighting Irish.

The Irish Wake Museum in Waterford indulges Irish people’s fascination with death and all its customs, writes Sarah Horgan Curators Clíona Purcell and Donnchadh O’Ceallacháin outside the ...

The latest Trolley Watch figures, released on Monday by the Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation (INMO), reveal 663 patients are currently waiting for beds in hospitals across the country.