Luke Doogue, Neil Patterson, and Stephen Patterson took the Christmastime twelve pubs tradition into their own hands after they found themselves with nothing to do on Sunday mornings. The Co. Wicklow locals are golfers, and when one suggested attending Mass instead of golfing on a rainy Sunday, the men coined the term ‘twelve churches’ instead…
Faith and social life go hand in hand with twelve pubs alternative
A woman prays the rosary at Ballyloughane
beach in Galway, but sometimes prayer is as
simple as asking: “Lord, increase my faith.”
Photo: CNS /Clodagh Kilcoyne, Reuters.

