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Being at the heart of an experiment isn’t new for Rathlin Island. It was from the L-shaped outcrop off Northern Ireland’s north-eastern coast that Guglielmo Marconi sent the world’s first commercial wireless transmission in 1898. More than a century later, the province’s only inhabited island is a laboratory again.
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