Éanna Ní Lamhna: 'I don’t have bad days - I’m a positive person'

"Éamon de Buitléar had a great, long career in wildlife. He used to say that people who are outdoors all the time, looking at wildlife and flowers, will never suffer from depression."

Eanna Ni Lamhna. Photograph by John Kelly

WHEN I speak with Irish biologist and environmental consultant Éanna Ní Lamhna, she is at home in Terenure, Dublin, with her husband, John Harding, and her grandson, Shea, six, who is eager for us to wrap up so they can go and catch crabs.

She has plenty of work to do, particularly ahead of National Tree Day, on October 3. The annual event, sponsored by Spar and organised by the Tree Council of Ireland, offers schools free saplings. This year’s theme is ‘Trees are Magic’ and hawthorn is the chosen tree.