Star Wars at 40: How Kerry became the centre of a galaxy far, far away

In 1977 we were introduced to Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia for the first time. To mark 40 years of Star Wars, Greg Murphy took a trip to Skellig Michael (aka the planet Ahch-To), set to take centre stage again.

Describing somewhere as out this world has never been so accurate when you’re talking about West Kerry, and that’s before we leave Portmagee to journey to ‘a galaxy far, far away’.

Arriving into the already stirring fishing village at 8.30am I couldn’t help but feel that it was going to be a special day.