One of the 34 deer culled in the Phoenix Park this this afternoon. The Office of Public Works says it needs to keep numbers of the animals down to “lower the risk of disease and road accidents in the park”. The animals were sold to a game dealer “approved by the Department of Agriculture”.
Is it necessary to kill them? Could they not be relocated to other areas of Ireland, or even abroad? Seems to fly in the face of all the park stands for to kill some of its native residents. I hope the dogs in the Áras don’t over populate.
— Colm Connaughton (@ColmConnaughton) January 9, 2019
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Deer cull takes place in Phoenix Park (BreakingNews)
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What a dose…
They have no predators other then us, hence the need to be culled. It is the same all over the country.
The carcasses are given to the zoo so they don’t go to waste.
No, Colm’s plan of rounding up wild animals for live animal transport overseas is a much better idea…
Send them to Lapland, maybe?
They should introduce wolves into the park too – as a natural predator to cull the deer…
There’s one there already. Loves the old Venison
The article says they are sold to a game dealer “approved by the Department of Agriculture.
They’d kill YOU if they had the chance!
“It’s coming right for us!!”
I never knew that they did this. I suppose it is neccessary when you think about it. Lime disease is no joke, Deer ticks are stubborn things
Surely the meat could be sold for human consumption.
+ 20 grand (s worth of meat)
Surely we didn’t give the animals in Dublin Zoo prime venison?
It literally has been sold for consumption. It says so in the article.
MAKING ROOM FOR THE HOMLESS CAMPS!11!1
How much is a leg of venison? Is it dear?
It is deer, dear.
It’s dear deer?
It’s dear, dear.
Hear deer here
Me Dear?
If you remove all the legs……would it be still deer?
It would be much better if we could let the wolves, the tigers and Lions cull them themselves, I can’t see any negative for doing this, it will enrich the lives of the animals (not the deer obviously), the people on the tour buses would have something to see, we may even get a safari park out of it.
Ok there might be a couple of issues and we might loose a couple of cyclists or joggers, but only the slow ones. Even that could be turned into a sport instead of ‘Running with the Bulls’ we could have ‘The Predator Run’ (it’s just a working title and I do realise that there maybe members of the Catholic Church might object given the obvious connections to predators and the park itself).
I’m sure the Green Party or PBP would get behind this, although the latter might protest against it, if it does get the go ahead but Leo and Paul Murphy (the right wing one) might like it as it could be away to finally eliminate those people that disgust them.
FINTON!
+1 Finton forever
They have been so tamed that they just walk up to be shot. That’s no way to manage a problem that only exists because management created it.
They should cull wild deer in other parts of Ireland too. Farmers near forests where the critters are based are fed up with the animals encroaching on farmland and playing havoc with kitchen gardens by eating leaves of young trees, munching cabbage and other vegetables, and damaging fencing. Wild deer late at night in the early morning are dashing across roads and causing possible car accidents. Bring in the sharpshooting hunters every couple of years, I say, and keep deer numbers down.
we’ve only had one around fur place for the first time lately and hugs lovely to see – maybe because we don’t have the kitchen garden anymore!
A great year for wildlife, we’ve had otters, pine martens, deer
You been on the wine, Harry?
Yes, there are places in Wicklow, for example, where the deer are starved looking and desperate. They’ll eat anything, they’re so hungry.
Wicklow dear only eat in Avoca, hence their slim figures.
The deer were there first, fupp the farmers
You can cull them, or let them strip their ecosystem and die of starvation and disease, or reintroduce wolves or, and just hear me out on this one, clone dinosaurs.
Clone dinosaurs? Let’s do it… What could go wrong?
Nothing about cloning dinosaurs ever goes wring.
Nothing could possiblie go wrong.
Is that you Jeff?
Consider: replace the rickshaws with deer-drawn chariots
It might buck a trend as people would be fawning over them.
Deer pulling sled like objects? It’d be like Christmas every day!
What I often wondered is why you never seen the deer popping out to the shops fora pack of fags and a pint of milk given how open the park is. I mean what is stopping them from hitting the January sales like the rest of us?
Because the Park runs low on bucks in January.
I’d say the guy killing them gets absolutely no craic out of it.right
It’s a managed cull every year, under the strict guidance of the NPWS, and includes these non native Sika and the native Red in Killarney and Glenveagh. The meat, if disease-free, does enter the food chain and venison can be bought and eaten in season. Try the Wicklow-based butchers. In my view, Bord Bia should promote it more. The cull has been going on for thousands of years. There has also been re-distribution programmes to promote new herds in other national parks such as Connemara. Shipping deer livestock abroad is a ridiculously stupid idea. Exporting venison however, is a good one. Maybe to our nearest neighbours when their victory gardens succumb to frost.