The Lough Derg Monastery and St. Patrick's Basilica in Donegal, Ireland, are important places of pilgrimage to the Irish. The annual summer pilgrimage was canceled this year due to the COVID-19 ...

Something similar happened around 100 years ago. In 1921 about 250 detainees at a prison camp in Ballykinlar in Co. Down sought permission to perform the Lough Derg pilgrimage exercises in their camp.

This apparent decline in religious devotion is reflected in the falling numbers of pilgrims to Lough Derg, ... pilgrims to Lough Derg, a remote outpost in northwest Ireland, ... Pilgrimages ...

The Prior of Lough Derg has issued an apology following the imprisonment of former employee Tomas Gallagher who sexually assaulted five women at the pilgrimage site. ... Ireland’s 60 best beer ...

A man who sexually assaulted five women at a Christian pilgrimage site in the Republic of Ireland has been jailed for a total of four years. Tomas Gallagher, 42, of Rathanlacky, Dunkineely, County ...