No running water and wild weather conditions – young couple 'made for' Blaskets caretaker job

Niamh Kelleher and Jack Cakebread will be reunited on the island after months apart

Niamh Kelleher and Jack Cakebread: 'We were so excited when we got the interview and then we got it.'

A young couple is to become the new caretakers on the Great Blasket Island, reuniting after months apart in the process.

Twenty-five-year-old Niamh Kelleher from Kilfinane, Co Limerick, will be reunited with her British partner Jack Cakebread, 24, when they take up the coveted stint on Great Blasket Island, for which thousands applied this year.