First, there is a gasp. “There he is. Oh my God, he’s so cute.” A puffin has been sighted, far up on Rathlin Island’s western cliffs. On the viewing platform everyone turns towards it, cameras aloft.

For the seventh year in a row, puffins have returned to Rathlin Island in March, signalling the start of a new nesting season. The RSPB NI said the “punctual Puffins” were spotted arriving on the ...

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 of more than 400 ferret traps have been activated on Rathlin Island. They have been laid as part of a project to eradicate non-native predators from the island so that species like the ...

The amber-listed Manx Shearwater has bred on Rathlin Island for the first time in decades. And hopes are now high that their population will grow again. The bird was once present on the island in ...

The call of the wild is stronger than ever for debut author and nature campaigner Ruby Free who, three-and-a-bit years after leaving her dream job on Rathlin Island, is excited to rewild a farm in Co ...

Reflections on two years of collaborative design research and what’s next for Phase Two. After two years of co-design research with Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland’s only inhabited offshore island, ...

When the new school year starts next month, just four pupils will take their seats in the tiny, stone-built primary school on Rathlin Island. their principal, Brian McCaughan, who commutes daily by ...

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 ...