Stories have emerged of Irish feral goat “terrorising” people, and have reportedly risked causing car crashes with aggressive mating 🔴 Now they stand accused of an even greater crime – of destroying the very essence of Ireland: it’s countryside
The feral goat has not been universally loved since its introduction to Ireland by neolithic farmers more than 3,000 years ago.
When Eoghan Daltún, a sculptor by training, moved with his family from Dublin to a 72-acre patch of forest in Bofickil on the western Beara Peninsula in 2009 he wanted to restore it to its natural state.But it wasn’t man that was the biggest obstacle. The unlikely culprits were its wild – or rather feral – inhabitants.
But not for Daltún : “Ireland is absolutely not a green paradise,” he says. “It’s one of the most ecologically trashed places on Earth, sadly.” “Ireland’s last surviving remnants of rainforest are dying, and it’s such a disgrace,” he adds. Forest is deeply ingrained in Ireland’s Gaelic past, and is the setting for many folk tales and feats. But Daltún points out that much of the worst deforestation occurred before 1000AD, long before “our neighbours”, as he delicately describes the English, were on the scene.
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