The force is getting stronger in Skellig Michael

The force is getting stronger in Skellig Michael after tourism operators predicted the isolated Unesco world heritage site could be set to enjoy its busiest-ever tourist season.

 

 

Enquiries and bookings to visit the protected Co Kerry island have surged in recent weeks following the release of a teaser trailer of this year’s Star Wars blockbuster, ‘The Last Jedi’.

The breathtaking Atlantic outpost – which was used as the location of a Jedi hideaway at the end of the last instalment, ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, took centre-stage in the two-minute trailer for the next episode in the enduring Disney space opera.