Irish Central5d
Celebrate Saint Brigid’s Day with Ireland's cultural institutions
Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, is encouraging members of the public to ...
Irish Central5d
Take our Famous Brigid's Quiz and test your knowledge this Brigid's Day Bank Holiday
Marking Ireland's newest national holiday, we want to test just how much you know about Ireland's matron saint and those ...
RTE Online5d
Candlelit procession to conclude St Brigid's celebrations
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 ...
Independent.ie6d
Behind St Brigid’s walls: Stories of hidden lives in Ireland’s psychiatric hospitals
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.
Lynette Fay: St Brigid was my kind of woman – but how far have we really travelled towards equality?
I love that St Brigid’s Day is now being celebrated with vigour and energy reflective of the woman and her legend, and of ...
Magpies, bad luck and Cromwell’s colonels
Many, on meeting the bird, raise their cap to it or even salute it to avoid bad luck. Seeing a lone magpie before going out ...
The New York Times5d
How N.F.L.’s Saints Helped Catholic Church Address a Sex-Abuse Scandal
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 ...
Yahoo4d
NFL emails reveal extent of Saints' damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis
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 ...
CNN5d
NFL emails reveal extent of Saints’ damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis
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 York Post5d
New Orleans Saints’ role in priest cover-up revealed in shocking emails team tried to keep secret
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 ...
ESPN5d
Emails detail Saints' assistance to New Orleans Archdiocese in sexual abuse scandal
What followed was a monthslong, crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints' president and other top team officials, according to hundreds of internal emails obtained by The ...
Offaly Independent4d
Students from Midlands school create real life St. Brigid's Cross
The enterprising students and teachers from the Cistercian College in Roscrea embarked on a novel project to commemorate the feast day of St. Brigid by creating their own real life St. Brigid's Cross ...