Farmer hatches hen-credible plan in depths of grief

It was a plan hatched in the depths of grief, but there were scenes of joy yesterday when farmer John Dolan finally laid eyes on his record-breaking hen that has who’s been stuffed for posterity.

And as the fowl fanatic from Banagher, Co Offaly brought his late-departed heroic hatching hen home, he said he hopes her new glass display case will help him spread Marmalade’s hen-credible story far and wide.