Touring family of foxes get up close and personal at school

A family of foxes is on tour around schools in the South-East.

The Co Kilkenny man, who lives a couple of miles outside Thomastown, started off minding a vixen, a female fox he calls Gráinne, seven years ago. However, that number has grown to three as people around the country are turning to him to care for animals they find injured.

“The foxes, Gráinne, Minnie, who is five-years-old, and 11-month-old Henry, named after star hurler Henry Shefflin, do get a lot of attention from the children living around here, and now primary schools are asking me to bring them along so the students can see them at first-hand. It’s keeping me very busy.