Not just a tall tail for one Cork resident who spots exotic creature in his garden

Mystery surrounds how a creature native to the jungles of South America ended up pottering around a garden in a village in Co Cork.

A householder could have been forgiven for rubbing his eyes when he looked out his patio door to see an unexpected guest nosing around his shrubbery.

John Hall said that, when he looked out into his garden in Ballygarvan last Sunday morning, he initially thought it was a badger, until he noticed the creature’s tail and took a picture of it on his mobile phone.