Former RTÉ News journalist Charlie Bird appeared on Ireland's Late Late Show on Friday night to discuss motor neuron disease diagnosis and launch a climb of Croagh Patrick in April to raise money for ...
This fascinating YouTube series demonstrates how a team of five workers is building stone steps to the summit of Croagh Patrick in County Mayo. The videos, posted by David Doyle on the Climb the Reek ...
“Climb holy men, to the top of the mountain to the west of the sun in order to bless the people of Ireland.” – Book of Armagh, 9th century ad. This is the statement on one of the signs on the trail to ...
A number of bishops joined thousands of pilgrims from across Ireland in the annual Reek Sunday pilgrimage climb of Croagh Patrick as part of the Irish church’s drive for vocations to the priesthood.
The experience and challenge of the climb up and back down Ireland’s Holy Mountain, Croagh Patrick, on Reek Sunday, along with a streaming sea of humanity, was everything I had hoped for that day.
Writer Oli Smith made a pilgrimage to Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, Ireland - CATHAL MCNAUGHTON Even in the half light of the morning, you could make out barefooted pilgrims on the holy mountain.
Pilgrims attend Mass at the summit of Croagh Patrick during the first Reek Sunday climb of the mountain since the pandemic hit in this photo from County Clare, Ireland, July 31, 2022. (Credit: CNS ...
Archbishop Francis Duffy of Tuam put grandparents and the elderly at the heart of his message for the Jubilee Year's "Reek Sunday" pilgrimage at Ireland's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick, on July 27. In ...
Ireland's leading Catholic clergyman has become the first Archbishop of Armagh since the time of St Patrick to climb Croagh Patrick. Dr Sean Brady ascended the County Mayo mountain where a pilgrimage ...