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‘Like a jewel’ Good karma comes to Hare Krishna Island at last

n the early 1980s, Ireland’s tiny Hare Krishna community made a bold decision: it bought an island. Inis Rath, a nine-hectare wooded island on Lough Erne, just inside Northern Ireland, was available for £125,000. There was a tradition of monks inhabiting Irish islands and this one was tranquil, midway between Dublin and Belfast, and appeared ideal for a new

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