Think of Rathlin Island and you most likely think of puffins. But with numbers declining by 40% since 1999, the race is on to protect the colourful ground-nester from predators before the balance tips ...

It’s the last Sunday in June, and the Spirit of Rathlin ferry has just pulled away from Ballycastle pier in Co Antrim. The sky is furious and messy; mostly fast-changing clouds of charcoal grey. It ...

Just four kilometres off the county Antrim coast lies Rathlin - the only inhabited off-shore island in Northern Ireland. It is home to 145 permanent residents and now features the newly refurbished ...

Rathlin Island off the coast of Northern Ireland is gradually reopening for the summer season after staying Covid-free for the duration of the pandemic. Residents on the island closed down on St ...

When the last evening ferry leaves Rathlin island, the mood shifts. “You’re isolated then. There’s something about that. You’re at peace. You need to be sitting in McCuaig’s pub looking out the window ...

The first puffins of the season have returned to Northern Ireland’s only inhabited offshore island. Rathlin Island plays host to the distinctive seabirds every year from Easter. The RSPB Northern ...

IT IS the island whose disputed ownership between Scotland and Ireland ultimately came down to a test on whether a snake lived or died. But four centuries after its Irish fate was sealed and in Brexit ...

The company operating the Rathlin Island ferry has ceased trading. Rathlin Island Ferry Ltd ran the service on behalf of Stormont’s Department for Infrastructure (DfI). The department said it is ...

Rathlin Island, six miles north of the Antrim coast, is home to just over 100 people whose way of life is shaped by the spectacular landscape in which they live. The pace of life on Rathlin is gentle ...

Puffin numbers on Rathlin have declined by more than half in recent years Seabirds that are in decline on Rathlin Island are to be protected through a £4.5m scheme. The five-year project aims to ...

IT IS the island whose disputed ownership between Scotland and Ireland ultimately came down to a test on whether a snake lived or died. But four centuries after its Irish fate was sealed and in Brexit ...