A lone priest determined that COVID-19 won’t end a centuries-old tradition of pilgrimages to an island known as St. Patrick’s Purgatory, went to the site this week, and says he will stay there until ...

Ireland’s ancient ‘Island of Miracles’ remains closed following the COVID lockdown. The Lough Derg Monastery and St. Patrick's Basilica in Donegal, Ireland, are important places of pilgrimage to the ...

That realization, dear Patrick, struck me like a bolt of lightning when I was walking my dogs on the shores of the Lough Derg on the Shannon from which I live only yards away these times as you well ...

Thirty years ago, a Nenagh local called Paddy Mackey, who spent his younger years on Lough Derg at a time when the word “pollution” was rarely spoken, was cruising along the lake near Dromineer when ...

One of Ireland's holiest sites, Lough Derg in County Donegal, has cancelled its traditional three-day pilgrimage. Thousands of pilgrims visit St Patrick's Purgatory near Pettigo each summer. The ...

This weekend, the Jubilee of Hope pilgrimage season will open in Ireland and the first cohort of 2025 pilgrims will disembark on a small island called St. Patrick’s Purgatory located on Lough Derg, a ...

A man who sexually assaulted five women at a Christian pilgrimage site in the Republic of Ireland has been jailed for a total of four years. Tomas Gallagher, 42, of Rathanlacky, Dunkineely, County ...

Cardinal Marc Ouellet went to Lough Derg the other night, a traditional site for pilgrimages of penance in Ireland with associations going back to the days of St. Patrick and, this being Ireland, ...