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"What if you saw the Milky Way from one of the darkest places in Europe?"
Standing in a field outside Ballinskelligs with the Atlantic at your back and the Milky Way stretching overhead is one of those moments that genuinely stops you mid-sentence. There is no phone signal pulling you away, no streetlight bleaching the sky, just a ribbon of two hundred billion stars you forgot existed. You realise how rarely you actually look up. It is humbling without being heavy, and quietly addictive. Kerry hands you a universe on a clear night, and you will drive home slightly changed.
Eimear (27), Limerick — dental nurse, drives a 2011 Yaris with a dodgy heating element
I nearly didn't go because the forecast said cloud cover, and I'd already driven to Waterville once before for nothing.
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