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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin

‘We try to put applicants off’: couple chosen as live-in caretakers on uninhabited Irish island

Great Blasket Island with ruined and restored houses up the hill from Trá Bán, white beach.
The couple will live in a stone house next to some ruined cottages abandoned in the 1950s. Photograph: Alice Hayes

A young couple in search of a new chapter in their lives are swapping creature comforts for life on an otherwise uninhabited island off the coast of Ireland with no hot water, stable electricity or cars.

Camille Rosenfeld, from Minnesota in the US, and James Hayes, from Tralee in County Kerry, have been chosen to be this year’s live-in caretakers of Great Blasket, the largest island of one of the most westerly archipelagos in Europe.

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