On Wednesday Dublin Zoo will open a brand new orang-tan enclosure, a new €3m forest home that will replicate their natural habitat in Borneo. Still a construction site, Rowena Walsh wears her hard hat and goes behind the scenes to take a look.

The baby boom at Dublin Zoo last year contributed to increased profits arising from the record number of visitors paying to see the new animals.

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President Michael D Higgins has made his first official visit to his nearest neighbours in Dublin’s Phoenix Park— the zoo.