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The Spanish farmers who cried wolf
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Richard Collins: What zebrafish can tell us about lockdown
Richard Collins
Richard Collins is a polymath from Limerick with a special interest in birds, particularly swans.

This public enemy number one is often harassed and persecuted. The last one recorded here was killed in Carlow in 1786.

The Irish name for the animal tells it all; “mac tíre” translates roughly as “the outcast son of the countryside”.

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