Irish Examiner View: Protect national treasures - Time to say ‘no’

Even in this assertively secular age, Skellig Michael can be described as a special place.

Irish Examiner View: Protect national treasures - Time to say ‘no’

Even in this assertively secular age, Skellig Michael can be described as a special place.

Indeed, if our woke vocabulary will allow, it seems appropriate to describe all the Skellig islands — and many more jewels like them — as sacred places, places where time, imagination, and lingering relics of lost, all but forgotten communities speak together in a way that soothes and stimulates.

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