Aibhín Gallagher from Arranmore wins essay contest and visits the European Parliament, meeting MEP Nina Carberry ...

Comhdháil Oileáin na hÉireann holds AGM on Clare Island, May 11-12, featuring tours, social events, and presentations ...

Feel the wind in your hair as you embark on a legendary road trip along a little country's entire western coastline taking in ...

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos pets a cat as he leaves the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, seen in the ...

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, looks out from the chapel of the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, in ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has ...

I wanted to be here with my community, feel their emotions, because I’m responsible. God put me here to care for them,” he ...

Father Spyridon, another monk and an assistant also maintain the buildings, cultivate the fields, care for their animals, and receive the steady stream of pilgrims. While many on the island ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its ...