With Heritage Week running currently, it was good to see aspects of our spiritual heritage getting attention in the media. On Morning Ireland (RTÉ Radio 1, Friday) reporter Joe Caulfield spoke to some of the pilgrims on St Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, described as one of the oldest Christian pilgrimages, attracting pilgrims for over 1500…
Spiritual heritage, pilgrimages and holy wells
Station Island. Photo: Lough Derg.

Brendan O’Regan