Lough Derg was a four-time winner from 18 starts at Cheltenham, including a most unlikely rallying win over No Refuge in 2009, but it was at Ascot where he arguably excelled. Three wins, two seconds, ...

Fourteen barges of all sizes tied up side-by-side travelled from Mountshannon to Killaloe on Friday for about two hours in ...

These included a 'Do Lough Derg wherever you are' online event in late June 2020 - the first time that the pilgrimage, including an all-night vigil, was experienced digitally.

Two people on a 25ft yacht were rescued by Lough Derg RNLI on Sunday evening after the vessel’s engine failed and it drifted into a rocky shore Four people were rescued on the River Shannon in ...

By the end of the first day, three Stations must be completed before the night vigil begins after 9.30pm prayers. Four more Stations are completed during the night.

With just one “Lough Derg meal” — consisting of black tea/coffee and toast per day — to sustain them, pilgrims continue to walk, kneel and pray throughout the night inside the island’s ...

Cardinal Marc Ouellet went to Lough Derg the other night, a traditional site for pilgrimages of penance in Ireland with associations going back to the days of St. Patrick and, this being Ireland ...

Lough Derg is a bit like childbirth; nothing prepares you for the reality. “Oh God. It’s Alcatraz . In the rain,” says an arrival, eyeing the island from the car park.

Lough Derg in Co Donegal is a unique place in the world of pilgrimage. ... Exhausted after the vigil, and within 10 minutes of Benediction and night prayer, I was horizontal in the duvet.

The pilgrimage season begins at Lough Derg in Donegal a place of Christian prayer and reflection since the 5th century. ... where the first night on the island is devoted entirely to prayer.

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.