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THE SKELLIG RING in Co Kerry has been named one of the top ten regions travellers should visit in 2017 by Lonely Planet.
It is the gateway to Skellig Michael and the Little Skellig and is located close to the famous Ring of Kerry.
Here’s what Lonely Planet has to say about the destination:
“A long time ago, far, far away… a small band of monks established a hidden base on a remote, wave-pounded hunk of rock rising out of the Atlantic like a giant triangle. With a setting like this, it’s no wonder Skellig Michael made the new Star Wars location list.
To get to this far-flung isle, a boat trip is necessary from the Skellig Ring, perhaps Ireland’s most charismatically wild and emerald stretch of coastline. Glimpsed at the end of The Force Awakens, Skellig Michael will play a bigger role in this year’s sequel and local businesses are gearing up for the expected visitor bump.
Nóirín Hegarty, operations director with Lonely Planet in Ireland, told Morning Ireland Skellig Michael’s appearance in Star Wars is not the only reason the location was chosen for the list, but said the film will open “this part of the world to a whole new generation of cinemagoers”.
Hegarty said the area’s untouched landscape is relatively unique, noting it has been “pretty much untouched since the sixth century when the monks lived there”.
Over 13,000 people visited Skellig Michael this year. It is closed to the public from October to April.
Hegarty said Lonely Planet is “very much about sustainable tourism” and uses its travel lists to “identify places that people haven’t thought of or have perhaps overlooked”.
The top 10 regions in Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2017 are:
1. Choquequirao, Peru
2. Taranaki, New Zealand
3. The Azores, Portugal
4. North Wales, UK
5. South Australia
6. Aysén, Chile
7. The Tuamotus, French Polynesia
8. Coastal Georgia, USA
9. Perak, Malaysia
10. The Skellig Ring, Ireland
Tourism Minister Shane Ross welcomed the news, saying: “I am delighted that The Skellig Ring is being internationally recognised as a place of rugged and ethereal beauty.
“An integral part of our Wild Atlantic Way, it is a place both wild and majestic. The early monks who settled in this area believed they had reached the edge of the world and anyone who has travelled The Skellig Ring can appreciate the co-existing impressions of timelessness and mortality the landscape evokes.”
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Is it just me or is the headline a tad ambiguous? I read the headline to mean reasons as to why victims should drop cases rather than reasons as to why the DPP wasn’t proceeding with a prosecution.
Exactly !
The DPP has had her budget cut, while her office has had to deal with more files. Telling complainants (or the emotional loaded term victims) that their evidence wouldn’t be accepted as credible, or that the prosecution would not be in the public interest, is fairly low on the priority list.
Divert some of the funding devoted to defending the criminal ..such as repeated free legal aid and problem solved. Easy !
Now your talking Michael. My 9yr old went through he’ll & back, case wasn’t passed. No reason & no victims support for him. Maybe get rid of flat screen tv’s & state of d art gyms from prisons & put money into DPP or funding for victims support.
That’s crap, they write to tell you case wasn’t passed so surly a couple of more sentences with the reasons as to why would not be costly
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