Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, is encouraging members of the public to ...

How to make St. Brigid's Cross? With St. Brigid's Day upon us, learn all about the history and traditions of St. Brigid's Cross and how to make your own!

It's St Brigid’s Day. And with the resurgence of interest in St Brigid, more and more people are opting for a permanent way to celebrate Ireland's 'matron saint'. Watch our video to hear how St ...

Events are continuing in Co Louth this long weekend to commemorate the birth and legacy of Saint Brigid. Tradition holds that Ireland's iconic matron saint was born at sunrise on 1 February 452 in ...

A vast network of asylums operated here in the past, writes Sara Colohan — places of both heartbreak and humanity The entrance to St Brigid's Hospital, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, in June 1980.

I love that St Brigid’s Day is now being celebrated with vigour and energy reflective of the woman and her legend, and of ...

Junior and senior infant students in Scoil Gormain Naofa in Castletown celebrated St Brigid's Day on Friday, January 31. On the day, the students enjoyed a demonstration of cross making and butter ...

Happy Saint Brigid's Day to all our readers and advertisers. Saint Brigid is here depicted in stained glass at St. Mary of ...

FILE - New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson, left, talks with Saints President Dennis Lauscha, right, next to VP Greg Bensel, center, in the second half of an NBA basketball game ...

Leaders of one of New Orleans’s other major institutions, the N.F.L.’s New Orleans Saints, were concerned. Gayle Benson, the team’s owner, is a devout Catholic, major church benefactor and ...

What followed was a months-long, crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints’ president and other top team officials, according to hundreds of internal emails obtained by ...

NEW ORLEANS — As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s NFL ...