TD slams lack of deer management ‘strategy’

Farmers have also criticised the "haphazard approach" to the management of wild deer, which has "brought us to crisis point".

A TD has criticised the lack of “strategy” for deer management in Ireland.

Fianna Fáil TD Jackie Cahill told Department of Agriculture officials at an Oireachtas committee meeting that in Co Wicklow, farmers “have stopped keeping bovines because they couldn’t get clear of TB because of deer”.