Mildly Interesting

It’s possible they meant their symbol and its use isn’t tied to any single belief. The symbol’s original meaning might be why they went out of the way to say so.

Ireland has a sizeable Catholic population, and Catholicism has a habit of subsuming local pagan traditions and gods and reworking them as their own.

Celtic Paganism does in fact refer to a particular pagan religion and set of beliefs/roots of those beliefs.

Paganism is incredibly diverse, I will give you that. "Pagan" is more of an umbrella term for many different beliefs with some common elements.

But christianity for example is also an umbrella term - you have catholicism (whis then has the many different orders and stuff under it), evanjelical christianity (with its many denominations) and orthodox church (which may or may not have different groups under it, I don't really know). And even two different people within one denomination of the larger group of christianity may hold a slightly different set of beliefs.

Paganism is just a larger umbrella. I also went with Celtic paganism as it narrows it down a little more, that's why I went for that rather than simply saying "paganism".

Now I get what the hospital tried to go for. But saying it is not tied to a religion is I think a little unfortunate.

Newgrange is essentially my holy place, and I hope to see it one day. Mythology or not, to stand where the Tuatha De Danaan are said to have inhabited and are now laid to rest would be otherworldly.

They're not my current brand of spirituality, but they set me on the path long ago.

I'd say - since that is an Irish hospital and a Celtic symbol - that they knew where they took the symbol from, but wanted to be inclusive of other belief systems, which is the right thing to do when talking about hospice care. Why invent everything from scratch if you don't have to?

Ah, thank you. For some reason I had the goddess Brigid associated with the triskele and maiden/mother/crone but there's so much overlap nowadays between goddess and saint that it's hard to find reliable sources on what was who.