Bird brain scheme aims to expand foul species

THIS paper reported last Friday that our broke Government spent nearly a half-million euros last year on a project aimed at increasing our corncrake population.

The mind boggles.

At a time when our health service is imposing cutbacks which strike hardest against the most vulnerable sections of humans the Government spent that much (borrowed) money on a scheme which increased the corncrake population of Ireland by just one hoarse male corncrake. There now is an expensive bird. The mind boggles again.