North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

When intervention subsidies attack!

Is it a sign of the coming apocalypse when the animal kingdom turn against their human masters ? (Of course, I predicted the same when Donie Cassidy was elected to the Dail, so go figure). In Ennis, Co. Clare, a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig has terrorised locals, whose natural instinct was to ‘load and load’ and blast it into oblivion. However, a local vet is trying for a more peaceful resolution. He is using a loudspeaker to broadcast the mating calls of a pot-bellied sow (now, now, no inapropriate suggestions as to where he would get such a tape in Clare) hoping to lure the fugitive in from the wild. As long as he doesn’t play the tape on a Saturday night – he might trap more than he bargained for. Meanwhile, in Kilcolgan, the wild bulls that have been shagging every heifer in East Galway have been rounded up – much to the chagrin of the heifers. The bulls , who escaped from a farm that lacked proper control, face a bleak and very short future. And in Northern Ireland, the police are warning locals to stay away from an escaped puma – superfluous advice, I would have thought.