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THE ‘May the 4th Be With You’ Festival, which was first launched in 2018 by Fáilte Ireland, is returning to the Skellig Coast region this year after two years being hosted virtually. The festival was created to celebrate the filming of the Star Wars film franchise on Skellig Michael. Episode […]

THE annual May The 4th Be With You Festival will not succumb to the coronavirus pandemic, but it will move online this year. The four-day online celebration features over 100 fan made Star Wars films with over 200 million YouTube hits and interviews with some of the directors from all […]

THEY really went all out with this. The ‘May the 4th Be With You’ festival is taking place this weekend in Portmagee, Valentia Island and Ballyferriter with people dressing up as their favourite characters. May the 4th, is the day when fans across the globe commemorate the Star Wars universe. This year’s […]

CALLING all Star Wars fans. The Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Brendan Griffin, unveiled the programme of events for this year’s ‘May the 4th Be With You’ festival on the Wild Atlantic Way, including a host of fun activities for all-ages across the Kerry villages of Portmagee, Valentia Island and Ballyferriter. Celebrating […]

THERE was a good turnout for the Star Wars Society concert in the Abbey Inn on Thursday night. The new SciFan Society of the ITT were the organisers and there were some great prizes on offer including IMAX Omniplex tickets for the upcoming Star Wars Movie ‘The Last Jedi’, Star Wars […]

WHO says south and west Kerry have the monopoly on Star Wars? Well the folks up in the north of the county are showing what it would be like if the movie franchise was filmed in Ballybunion, Ballyheigue, Banna, Ardfert, Ballyduff and Listowel. Tom Mulvihill and Michael ‘Pixie’ O’Gorman are […]

KERRY won the Best Regional stand award at the Connect16 closing ceremony in Dublin last week. Kerry Convention Bureau (KCB) and 16 Kerry business event specialists took Dublin by storm, exhibiting at Connect16, Ireland’s largest ever event for the meetings and events sector which took place in the RDS on Wednesday […]

FÁILTE Ireland is hosting a group of high profile international journalists on a trip to Skellig Michael to follow in Luke Skywalker’s footsteps to see for themselves how the force was awakened. The journalists write for some of the world’s leading magazines and newspapers including the National Geographic Traveller India, the […]

  TOURISM in Kerry received a boost today with the release of a Youtube video that features Star Wars The Force Awakens director, JJ Abrams and crew gushing over the beauty of Skellig Micheal. The video was produced by Discover Ireland and features behind the scenes footage of filming on […]

LEGENDARY Star Wars actor Mark Hamill took a break from his hectic filming schedule last night to try his hand at a different kind of trick when he was filmed pulling pints in The Bridge Bar, Portmagee last night. The Luke Skywalker actor is down around these parts as he […]

  THERE are reports in the media today that suggest that filming for Star Wars Episode 8 is set to take place on Skellig Michael in September and that the location could play a big part in the overall Star Wars story. The team over at ‘themoviebit.com’ in their article […]

COULD the force be back on Skellig Michael? The Irish Examiner are reporting this morning that speculation has increased that the Star Wars film crew will be coming back to the site because there are no regular sailings planned to the Unesco World Heritage site for the week beginning September 14. Continued […]

STAR WARS fans are getting excited at the news that the official trailer for ‘Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens’ will be out on Friday. However,  a fake teaser trailer appeared yesterday on YouTube and has garnered over 130,000 views, featuring Skellig Michael in it…for about a second! Regardless of […]