‘Out of control’ deer threatening motorists and woods

The deer population in South Kerry has increased to the point where it is “out of control”, threatening motorists, farmlands, and woodland, a county council meeting has been told.

A deer strategy was “urgently needed” to tackle the deer population and the dangers they cause, said Fine Gael councillor Patrick Connor-Scarteen.

It was his second such motion yet nothing had been done by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), which is in charge of deer, in the four years since he had first called for controls, he claimed.