Sinn Féin cuckoo ready to fly south

THERE three republican eco-tourists went searching for the lesser spectacled bear and other exotic species in the FARC-controlled Colombian jungle a few years ago.

They might have been better off training their binoculars at a couple of species closer to home.

In particular, they could have gone looking for a very famous but very hard to spot little creature called the cuckoo. We all know its familiar calling cry - chuckie, chuckie, chuckie awr law - but may not be so familiar with its mode de guerre.