Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works, Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran has welcomed the signing of a ...

Walking inside its chapels’ tumbled walls and seeing birds nesting in its silent bell towers, it’s hard to believe that this was once one of Europe‘s great universities. Clonmacnoise was founded by St ...

Ireland's Office of Public Works (OPW) honoured two of its guide staff at a special ceremony at Farmleigh House in Dublin's Phoenix Park today, October 4. The staff, Anthony Ryan and Aidan Doyle, were ...

It was an absolutely perfect day for traveling. The moon still continued its waning phase, the clouds were a soft orange/peach bunches of fluff in the sky, and we were well rested. Coffee got us off ...

The ancient monastery founded in the sixth century was a great burial place for Gaelic kings and a place of pilgrimage, writes… The ancient monastery founded in the sixth century was a great burial ...

Just back from two weeks in Ireland with my friends Fr. Bill and Fr. Patrick, where I went to get some perspective on life and the world, including recent events such as the U.S. killing of Gaddafi, ...

St. Ciaran (Kieran) of Clonmacnoise is known as “Ciaran the Younger”. He was born in about 512 (about 516 is also found) to the family of an itinerant carpenter and chariot-maker in the western Irish ...

AN OLD carved stone head which mysteriously reappeared a decade after going missing from Clonmacnoise had brought bad luck to those who took it, according to an informant who contacted the manager of ...