Swans rescued hook, line and saviours

IT was celebrations all round, yesterday, for a group of Kerry anglers who helped save a swan’s nest from rising flood waters during recent torrential rain.

Their joy was unbounded when cygnets emerged from four of the five eggs in the nest, which the anglers had moved to a raised platform of pallets.

The nest, on the banks of the river Laune, at Beaufort, Killarney, has become an attraction and is being visited by local school children, some leaving goodwill messages.