This UK island has only one shop and it almost just closed for good | UK News [Video]

Northern Ireland only has one inhabited island, and that island only has one shop.

But the ‘isolated’ Rathlin Island nearly lost its only shop, run by a community group, to a ‘common’ £12,000 online scam.

Residents living off the north coast of County Antrim were at risk of being forced to ferry to the mainland to buy basic supplies after criminals used a phishing email to access the Co-Op Shop’s banking details.

This island is not a place accustomed to crime.

Northern Ireland’s most northern point is so isolated that Irish – or Gaeilge – was still the community’s common language well into the 20th century.

Even by the 2021 census, a third of people could speak it and roughly 7% spoke it weekly.

Just 140 people live amid the ‘rugged landscape’ of the six-mile long and one-mile wide island, according to Northern Ireland’s official tourism website.

In fact, there are more different species of bird– 176 – on …