Isle of Muck

Closed to everyone but the birds, the Isle of Muck is a tiny Antrim island where brown rats were starved out and puffins came back after twenty-five years. It hovers off Islandmagee like a green ember dropped behind the coast, small enough to miss and stubborn enough to remember life. What was lost was not forgotten; it was waiting for the rats to leave and the seas to give back a little food.