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A Wicklow community is on the search for a legendary pagan cross that vanished from their St. Patrick’s Church parish 60 years ago.

The Independent reports that there are disparaging rumors as to why the granite cross may have vanished. Some say that local residents believed the cross was attracting fairies. Others believe it was buried by then priest Fr Matthew Blake, mainly because of its graphic carvings which displayed women and their “exaggerated genitalia.”

Sean Quinn’s dramatic fall from grace as Ireland’s richest man is down to the fairies – and his decision to move a megalithic tomb, according to a neighbor.

When the ladies equivalent of the Ryder Cup is held in Kileen Castle golf course in Dunsany, County Meath in September the world will get to see a unique Irish phenomenon, the fairty tree.

The world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, speaking to the Guardian newspaper over the weekend, said that heaven is nothing but "fairy story" invented for people who are "afraid of the dark".

Our town land of about ten houses is called Cloonasee, ‘meadow of the fairies.’  My daughter has seen a couple of colorful fairies under a bush and my neighbor's sensible six-year-old son had a white one on his shoulder recently when he kicked a ball into the orchard. He tried to come in from the garden with it to show it to his Mam but it vanished.

Wire' star Dominic West and his Irish fiancee Catherine FitzGerald officially tied the knot in Glin County Limerick yesterday--and for good measure christened two of their three children right after the wedding ceremony.

An ancient curse of Tara has been unleashed in Ireland by the destruction of the Fairy Forts.