Letter: I enjoyed your story about giving Rathlin Island to the US to please Trump - it was a good April Fool

By Letters

Published 1st Apr 2025, 23:00 GMT

A letter from Stevan Patterson:

With regard to the story on page six of yesterday’s edition of the News Letter about Rathlin (‘Emerging plan to hand Rathlin to US,’ April 1 2025).

Rathlin Island is just off the north coast of Northern Ireland and technically part of County Antrim but the April 1 spoof report said that it could become part of a chain of American owned territory, stretching from Rathlin to the Faroe Islands to Iceland, then Greenland, over to Newfoundland, linking down to Maine in the the northeast of the US

placeholder image — Rathlin Island is just off the north coast of Northern Ireland and technically part of County Antrim but the April 1 spoof report said that it could become part of a chain of American owned territory, stretching from Rathlin to the Faroe Islands to Iceland, then Greenland, over to Newfoundland, linking down to Maine in the the northeast of the US

It is a good one.

Well done to the News Letter on your April fool!

Stevan Patterson, Castlederg

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