Spotlight on the islands in Ardal O'Hanlon's new TV doc

A puffin on Skellig Michael, Star Wars film location.

The inhabited islands off the Irish coast, where farming and tourism are the main economic activities, are well used to the vagaries of the Irish weather from storms and rain to mild winters and a temperate climate.

They are far removed from sun-drenched Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, where the BBC filmed the tropical murder mystery series Death in Paradise.