The sight of a carcass of a mature deer on the roadside in the precincts of Killarney National Park, recently, brought home in a graphic way the fact that large numbers of animals, large and small, are being killed on our roads.

SOME years ago I was walking in a wood with my brother when we came across a badger caught in a snare.

PEOPLE regularly travelling the roads of Ireland cannot but notice the number of wild animals being run over.

CONSUMERS are being urged by animal welfare groups to boycott Irish dairy and beef and boycott Ireland as a holiday destination, because of what they call senseless slaughter of badgers in order to eradicate bovine TB.