A relic of Irish saint Brigid has returned to her home town after around 1,000 years away. Hundreds of people gathered in Kildare on Sunday morning for a special church service to mark the ...

Revered relics of St Brigid are coming back to Co Kildare after nearly a millennium. St Brigid, the mother saint of Ireland, is one of the country's three national saints along with St Patrick and ...

We bought one for our own house and I began to research it's meaning and history. St. Brigid's cross symbolises the beginning of Spring. In Ireland the official beginning of Spring is February 1st.

A number of events have taken place across Ireland in the run up to St Brigid's bank holiday The first Irish bank holiday to be named after a woman is taking place in the Republic of Ireland.