The first walking tour of the season was organised by Sr. Mary Minihan of the Brigidine Sisters in association with Kildare Town Walking Tours (Kildare Town Heritage Centre, Kildare Outlet Shopping, Kildare Cathedral, Grey Abbey Conservation Project and Cill Dara Historical Society) for Friday 1st Feb., St. Brigid's Day as part of the Annual Feile Bhride Festival.

Despite truly horrendous conditions including driving snow and rain some 35 hardened individuals (including two classes from local schools) turned out to walk in the footsteps of St. Brigid - Mary of the Gael, the Patroness of Ireland. They were under the guidance of Mario Corrigan, Local Studies Librarian and Chairman of the Kildare Heritage Committee and well-known Co. Kildare historian James Durney. But the walks are not simply about history and heritage they are about conversation, exercise and enjoyment and as they say - the craic was mighty!