Our family did it this year in Dooega on Achill Island and we didn’t quite expose our children (ages eight, six and three) to the full extent of the ritual. The wren is synonymous with wisdom and ...

Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in 1958, Stephen Cottrell was educated at Belfairs High School, Leigh-on-Sea, and the Polytechnic of Central London. He found faith as a teenager through the work of youth ...