Skellig is a tough old rock and can survive Star Wars

As the ‘Star Wars’ film crew returns to Skellig Michael on Monday, Liam Quinn agrues that the claims the Unesco World Heritage Site will be damaged simply don’t stand up.

Photograph courtesy of Madeleine Weber.

The facts in any story have an awkward habit of revealing some truths. The Skellig Rock, about which the current fury rages, is in fact, about 350m years old. Good hard rock. Atlantic-proof.