Deer slayings spark safety fears

GROWING concerns are being voiced about threats to public safety from the shooting and poaching of wild deer.

Trophy hunters have been blamed for the recent illegal shooting of five Red Deer stags in the general Killarney area.

Kerry county councillor John Joe Culloty urged the National Parks and Wildlife Service to re-deploy staff to help control the illegal shootings in which stags are being slaughtered and beheaded.