As the men climbed a sandy bank, they encountered a tree with the carved letters “C R O ... destination into a tree or post. Adding a cross would mean they left in an emergency.

Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way ...

Glendalough Visitor Centre was recognised at CIE Tours Awards of Excellence with a merit award. CIÉ Tours, the largest carrier of US visitors to Ireland every year, held its annual awards of ...

If you have ever ventured up the Spinc trail, in Glendalough, then the site of the old miners’ village with the stunning backdrop of the Wicklow Mountains will be something that forever lingers in the ...

In 1997, the Steelers played the Chicago Bears in a preseason game at Dublin's historic Croke Park, marking the first time the NFL had played a game on the island of Ireland. In the 2025 season, the ...

The PSNI and Garda have said they cooperated on a cross-border operation that involved ... A Police Service of Northern Ireland spokesperson said: “We are assisting An Garda Síochána with ...

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!

Discovered in a field in Scotland in 2014, the Viking Age "community property" is now the focus of a new exhibition in ...

Photo: Sasko Lazarov The number of refugees from ­countries such as Syria who were resettled in Ireland hit its lowest ... people living in the Red Cross-pledged accommodation scheme, and another ...

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks traveling as fast as bullets, a new study finds. Scientists ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about 10 minutes.