Mount Melleray Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the foothills of the Knockmealdown mountains, now houses only six monks and ...

The closure comes almost two centuries after the abbey was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to Ireland ...

HUNDREDS of people flocked to a historic abbey yesterday ahead of a ‘difficult’ closure. Mount Melleray Abbey in Waterford, regarded as one of Ireland’s most famous, held Sunday ...

Several pilgrims are expected to visit the site throughout the week, with the order saying that there have been many enquiries regarding times of Masses and other ceremonies ...

Over seven miles off the Irish coast, lie the sea crags of Skellig Michael, a breathtaking island once home to a community of reclusive monks. More recently, a different kind of hermit used it as ...

Unlike the rest of the population who generally couldn’t read or write, it was left to highly educated monks to record the events of the time. Written in a mixture of Irish and Latin ...

The Dubliner, 61, was arrested and imprisoned by the Spanish Guardia Civil in a blaze of publicity in October after he indicated he was planning to run in the General Election ...

Abbot general Bernardus Peeters, who leads the General Chapter in Rome, initiated a review of the Irish foundations in 2023 which sought to find a way forward in consultation with the monks ...

The Monk was granted €100,000 bail so he could ... hope to sell it to one of the TV companies in the coming weeks. The Irish TV stations don’t seem to want to touch it for some reason.” ...

Gerard “The Monk” Hutch, who received his first conviction ... just like Trump” and vow that he is ready to “take down the Irish government”. Asked about the comparison recently, Hutch ...