Sustainable Tourism

Cushendall, County Antrim—population 1,280, sheep 3,421, Wi-Fi signal occasionally audible—has just been named Northern Ireland’s newest “Eco-Destination of the Year,” a title greeted locally with the same enthusiasm reserved for a second-place raffle ticket. Yet this windswept hook of basalt and drizzle, huddled between the Antrim Glens and the North Channel’s grey indifference, has quietly…