Ahern should stop complaining about snails, says top biologist

LEADING environmentalist Eanna Ní Lamhna yesterday hit out at “silly nonsense” spoken by people who had no environmental education and who thought humans were the only species on Earth.

The first woman president of An Taisce also said Taoiseach Bertie Ahern should stop complaining about snails and swans holding up roads when it was he who encouraged support for the European treaty which introduced safeguards for wildlife.

Dr Ní Lamhna — a biologist, lecturer and broadcaster — was in Muckross House in Killarney National Park, to launch the country’s first third level degree courses in wildlife biology, which is being run by the Institute of Technology, Tralee.