“The hope is they will come back here. All the monks want to come back. There is more than a chance that this will happen.” Mount Melleray staff member Christina O’Flynn’s tone was ...

The influential film made a star of Gordon Liu Chia-hui, who played the fighting Shaolin monk San Te, and set the style for many of the martial arts films which followed. But Lau’s two sequels ...

“Monasteries don’t make much sense without monks,” says Fr Richard Purcell, abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey in west Waterford. The cleric is in reflective mood as the Cistercian ...