Concern over 'incidents' during ‘Star Wars’ filming on Skellig Michael

Ecologically significant moments during filming on the Unesco World Heritage site were played down, according to expert guide

A guide who has worked on Skellig Michael, off the Co Kerry coast, for almost three decades says that her experiences over the past two years still cause her to feel deeply concerned about the Government’s decision to allow scenes for Star Wars to be filmed on the Unesco Skellig Michael UNESCO World Heritage site.

Claire O’Halloran, who has been an Office of Public Works guide on Skellig Michael for 28 years, claims that Minister for Heritage Heather Humphreys gave filming the go-ahead on the basis of incomplete ecological data. She also claims that conditions were breached, that reported damage was downplayed and that “control failures” went unreported.

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