What the flock?
While the Garth Brooks fiasco will once again be debated in an Oireachtas Committee tomorrow, today is last official day of business in Leinster House before the big summer break.
So what weighty issues were discussed in the Upper House on the final day? Seagulls.
Fianna Fail Senator Ned O’Sullivan raised the issue of wild seagulls in Dublin. The Kerry man said the birds had ‘lost the run of themselves’ and they were also keeping people awake at night, menacing children and threatening to steal sweets and lollipops.
O’Sullivan also confirmed he wasn’t ‘birdist’: “I have nothing against pigeons – I can take or leave pigeons – but I am very much against seagulls”. Good to know. In quotes carried in the Indo, the Senator went on to say: “It might be funny to many people but it’s a serious issue in the city. They’re not seagulls, they really are vermin. Scavenger gulls. Dump gulls.”
O’Sullivan then called on new Environment Minister Ned O’Sullivan to deal with the problem. Perhaps he can start with Jonathan, the Bray menace?
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