Single-shaming customs were especially prevalent in Munster with the 'Skellig Lists' mocking, teasing and insulting unmarried ...

If you weren’t aware, today isn’t formally known as Pancake Day. I know, I know, it’s a day all about pancakes. However, it’s ...

Watching fastanchts get made from start to finish at Emingee's, I was fairly certain the potato doughnuts wouldn't disappoint ...

This year, 4 March is Shrove Tuesday - otherwise known as Pancake Day. Shrove Tuesday is a Christian festival marked all over ...

This week kicks off the period leading up to the Christian Easter celebrations. But while Easter is typically associated with ...

Celebrated as Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, around the world, Shrove Tuesday, or "Pancake Day," derives from the English word ...

The sun came out in Wiltshire this week and the county has welcomed rare wildlife and also pancakes and spring re-openings.

Lent is a 40-day period preceding Easter Sunday where people from all denominations of Christianity practice self-sacrifice ...

Lent is a period of 40 days which many Christians observe as a time of fasting, abstinence and penitence - here is everything ...

People who weren’t married by sundown on Shrove Tuesday might well expect to wait at least another year. People were marrying later and later in the 19th century, constrained by limited ...

The day earned its name from the Christian tradition of seeking absolution before the start of Lent. Pancakes became ...

These days most people mark Shrove Tuesday by cooking pancakes in a nod to the custom of using up eggs and butter before the period of abstinence begins. The Inter-Livery race featured teams ...