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It was dubbed “a stairway to heaven” by the local parish priest but when the 350 steps leading to the top of O’Rourke’s Table in Co Leitrim started to rot, locals seized the opportunity to ...

Travel: I climbed the ‘stairway to heaven’ next to a Star Wars film set in Ireland Visitors must navigate Skellig Michael’s 618 steps both ways to see the ancient hermitage.

Travel: I climbed the ‘stairway to heaven’ next to a Star Wars film set in Ireland as part of the weeklong "Hiking & Island Hopping: Cork & Kerry" trek.

No blarney, the Force was with me. Or at least with Watson, a black Lab mix and crack dolphin spotter who, upon detecting dorsal fins, relentlessly barked while racing throughout our small fishing ...

Fantastically flanked by oodles of adorable, clownish puffins lining my path, I’d soon climb Skellig Michael’s perilous 618-step “stairway to heaven” to explore 1,400-year-old stone ...