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Ireland's Islands
A series by Irish Times writers on Ireland’s offshore islands
Essential to preserve ‘irreplaceable legacy’ of Great Blasket, says Taoiseach
Varadkar says key restoration work is under way so as visitors can appreciate the island’s ‘beauty and heritage’
‘It is bringing justice to the local population’: A daytrip to the Aran Islands with a District Court judge
Judge Mary Fahy travels by ferry to Inis Mór three times a year to hear cases in English and Irish relating to all of the islands
Magical Mason: a deserted Connemara island to get away from it all
This small Co Galway island was once home to 127 people but now hosts daytrippers and wild campers looking for tranquillity and majestic summer sunsets
Life on Inis Meáin: ‘Some people will say there’s nothing here, but in fact there is everything here’
The middle of the Aran islands gets far fewer visitors than the other two, something locals are happy about
Sherkin Island: ‘We really do live in a postcard, a stunningly beautiful place’
Lying 4km off Baltimore in Roaringwater Bay in West Cork, the island has 110 permanent inhabitants
Life on Inishbiggle: ‘We are just waiting for the island to die. There is only one resident under 60’
The island, which has no public toilets or cafes, has seen a daily average of just five or six visitors this summer
Life on Rathlin island: ‘You either get the island or you don’t … It’s not an easy place to live’
On Northern Ireland’s only inhabited island, 150 people enjoy a gentler pace of life that would ‘break’ some people
Life on Inishturk: It’s still not touristy here. You can see the Milky Way at night, and there is peace
Rosita Boland takes the hour-long ferry ride to ‘Turk’, and falls in love with the island
Life on Tory Island, where just one child attends the local secondary school
Climate change means the sea around Tory has become ‘angrier’ and less predictable, threatening the island’s future, says one resident
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