Phoenix Pictures has acquired the rights to the award-winning British young adult novel “Skellig” by David Almond and attached Annabel Jankel to helm and produce it. A pioneer of the project, helmer ...

Samuel Beckett would find the absurd in it and Charles J Haughey would turn in his grave. That's the view of several Kerry-based artists concerned about the Government's metaphorical red carpet for ...

Lucasfilm has been granted permission by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphries, to shoot part on the new Star Wars movie, Episode VIII, on Skellig Michael island off the ...

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" may be an intergalactic adventure, but many of its filming locations are very real and hoping to attract fans as visitors – In particular, one Irish island where the ...

A two-mile exclusion zone has been declared around Skellig Michael off the Kerry coast during the filming of a new Star Wars film on the island. The zone, which is being patrolled by a naval vessel, ...

The people behind the next Star Wars film have been accused of going to "the dark side" by filming on the stunning island of Skellig Michael. Part of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is being shot on the ...

Newly-leaked footage allegedly from the upcoming ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ film shows the Skellig Michael monastic site as Luke Skywalker’s place of refuge. Skellig Michael is an island off the coast ...

Filming is a boon for Irish film industry and tourism, says Heather Humphreys Skellig Michael is undoubtedly one of Ireland’s most stunning landscapes. The world famous island has captured the ...

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.