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od Ireland will celebrate the spirit of St. Brigid's Day with a free unique panel discussion titled 'Find Your Wild'. During the discussion they will delve into crucial themes of climate change and biodiversity loss whilst discovering actionable solutions to safeguard our natural world.

St Brigid’s defeated Corofin last Sunday to lift the Shane McGettigan cup for the first time since 2012 — the year they went on to win the All-Ireland title.

Following a 3 year campaign spearheaded by Herstory, St. Brigid’s Day is Ireland’s new national holiday and the first named in honour of a woman: Brigid, our matron Saint and Celtic Goddess and a celebration of all mná.

More than €347,000 in funding has been allocated for the development of an astro turf pitch in Letterfrack and the development of a sustainable garden at St Brigit’s Garden in Rossachill.

The late Hubert Butler once wrote a delightful essay called Influenza on Aran in which he examined the evidence for the early Irish saints. His title is explained in the first few sentences: “When I arrived in Aran by the Naomh Eanna at Kilronan I was sneezing and, by the time I had raced to St Enda’s Church at Killeany and seen the stone on which he had floated in from Connemara, I was feverish and coughing. I spent the rest of my time in bed reading the only two books on Aran and its saints that I could find, a big one by Mr O Siochain [Aran: Islands of Legend] and a small one by Father Scantlebury [Saints and Shrines of Aran Mor]”.

Tuesday is February 1, the feast day of St Brigid, and the Galway City Museum will be marking the day with a series of events.