Crookhaven has hosted visitors from another galaxy. Tommy Barker looks at one of its star attractions.

Lucasfilm yesterday announced that the eight instalment of the Star Wars saga will be titled STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI.

During Star Wars Celebration 2016, director Rian Johnson revealed that Episode VIII will do something not done by any other film in the Star Wars saga to date. Episode VIII will begin right where Episode VII wrapped up.

The Force was certainly with the children of Scoil an Fheirtéaraigh in west Kerry when a special visitor from a galaxy far, far away called for a visit.

The posters say it best: “Episode VIII: A long time ago on a headland far, far away...”

Star Wars Episode VIII isn't due to release until the end of 2017 but after the blockbuster success of The Force Awakens fans around the world are already looking forward to it with great anticipation.

Once on an island far, far away, Star Wars landed on the rocky slopes of Skellig Michael off the coast of Kerry.

A Disney source said: "So many characters' back-stories and futures can now be brought to life."

Here's a real treat, the first footage from Star Wars Episode VIII - and it was shot in Ireland!

Star Wars Episode VII is still tearing it up at the box office, with the global total now over $1.8 billion.Quite naturally, anticipation is already high for the sequel, and now we're going to have to wait a bit longer for it.

Sad news for Irish Star Wars fans who were expecting to see Luke Skywalker back in Kerry this year for filming of Episode VIII, as new information suggests that we may have seen the last of the Jedi Knight on our shores for now. 

He’s battled Sith Lords, destroyed a Death Star, escaped the destruction of another, and restored freedom to a galaxy far, far away… but if the Jedi career ever falls through, Luke Skywalker can always rely on his pint-pulling skills to get by, thanks to the helpful staff of an extremely force-sensitive pub in Co Kerry.

Filming for Star Wars: Episode VIII has begun on Skellig Michael with a break in the weather yesterday finally making it possible for the Disney Lucasfilm crew to access the island.

It is the fastest selling item in gift shops in South Kerry, but yesterday the ‘Skellig Wars’ T-shirts were the only evidence the force had returned.

We've just heard that a new Star Wars film is about to start shooting in Ireland. That's right, a new and different movie.

Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany could still land a part in an upcoming Star Wars movie, with her name on the shortlist for Episode VIII

Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow may be in line to direct Star Wars: Episode IX. Lucasfilm may make the announcement at its Comic Con panel today.

Star Wars The Force Awakens is going to be wowing fans at San Diego Comic Con this year, but it won't be with new footage.

There's a new Star Wars film due in cinemas this December but that's just the beginning of an onslaught of entertainment from the galaxy far, far away.

The Star Wars universe is getting much bigger, and now we have some new details.

Tom Cruise could make a cameo in 'Star Wars: Episode VII'.

Time travel provides the mobsters of 2072 with a handy way of keeping their hands clean when they need someone killed — they just send them back to 2042, where a Looper (15A) like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) will do the dirty work and dispose of the body.

In 2005, writer-director Rian Johnson made a big splash with his ambitious debut, Brick, which set a classic noir detective story in a modern-day California high school.

Bruce Willis plays the "lamest hitman in the world" in time-travel thriller 'Looper'.

A beefed-up, sharper 'Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels' with Ruffalo (Stephen) and Brody (Bloom) playing a couple of ultra conmen who reap untold benefits from their carefully-constructed scams.

Rachel Weisz dazzled on the red carpet at the gala screening of 'The Brothers Bloom' tonight.

Brendan (Gordon-Levitt) is the High School loner who turns detective when his girlfriend simply vanishes.