Healy-Rae: Birds have brains as well

Birds, it would seem, may have more brains than some legislators.

According to Independent councillor Danny Healy-Rae, none of Kerry’s feathered friends would be “foolish enough” to build nests near a busy roadway.

“To think that any bird would be foolish enough to build her nest where she’d be blown to pieces and the feathers blown off her and she to be left standing naked in the middle of the road never made sense to me,” he thundered at a Kerry County Council meeting yesterday, where criticism was voiced over hedge-cutting and burning restrictions, under Wildlife Acts.