Wednesday 27 January 2016

In the latest Star Wars movie the final scene has Rey landing on an island and then climbing pathways and steps surrounded by ancient stone dwellings. Film set ? Nope !
The monastery on the island of Skellig Michael off the coast of Kerry, Southern Ireland is long abandoned and the islands are now an UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to nesting Puffins.

Some bright spark in the tourist centre of nearby Killarney saw a marketing opportunity in all this and when we were in Ireland last July we saw a display selling t-shirts re-naming it 'Skellig Wars'. 

He'd created a great logo showing the puffin birds, one clearly wearing a Darth Vader helmet.

So Rey goes to find 'you know who', not on the planet 'Ahch-to', but off the coast of Ireland, Earth.

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