Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland

First time accepted submitter wijnands (874114) writes Star Wars crews have started filming on the small Irish Island of Skellig Michael. This island, listed as a Unesco world heritage site, features the remains of a 6th century monastery as well as breeding populations of puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots and kittiwakes. Currently the Irish navy has deployed one vessel to maintain a two-mile exclusion zone around the island. Unesco is now concerned about what is going on the island, which is only visited 13 times a year by tourist groups, and has asked the Irish government for an explanation.

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Good...

[chinton]

Keep an eye on them so they don't do something stupid... Like Jar Jar. Or Hayden Christensen.

It is more visited than 13 times per year...

[Anonymous Coward]

There are 13 tour companies one can take to visit the island. The tours run each day during the summer but only once per day. So there are 13 boats of visitors per day for 5 months out of the year, not 13 visits per year total.

Re:Not filming in America anymore?

[PvtVoid]

Thanks Obama!!!

Obama is also responsible for why you can't get a date.

worlds largest greenscreen

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course they're filming in Ireland, its the worlds largest green screen.

Puffins attacked the craft services tent, allright

[RevWaldo]

~ They ate all the lobster salad and the chocolate chip power bars. Look at the feathers and tracks. It's just I never heard of them hitting anything this big before.

~ They didn't. But we are meant to think they did. These tracks are side by side. Puffins always march single file to hide their numbers.

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