Clodagh Finn: Let Brigid be the cue for all female saints to come marching in

Influential founder of the Church of Kildare will take centre stage on the first public holiday in her honour

The Brigid 1500 Light and Fire Walk, from Brigid 1500 — a programme of events in which will take place in 2024 to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of St Brigid’s death.

IT PLEASES me no end to see Brigid, the influential founder of the Church of Kildare, take centre stage ahead of the first public holiday in her honour on February 6.

The tone of events planned for the coming days is celebratory and inspirational — a much-needed lift to mark the mid-point between the darkness of the winter solstice in late December and the return of brighter, warmer days that will be ushered in with the spring equinox in late March.