Torc deserves better than WC fields

YOU don’t have to be a naturalist to know what bears do in the woods.

Naturally, in Killarney’s National Park, the native deer do it in the woods, and they do it all over the distant hills and valleys as well. Sheep too. But do tourists have to follow in their tracks? On a busy Bank Holiday Sunday visit at one of the Park’s main attractions, Torc Waterfall, it seemed like it.

Late October, with the 10,000 hectare national park all turned autumnal russet and gold, with the red deer’s annual stag rut just about over, and the rain coming down in squally sheets, Killarney town and its adjacent natural glories were still jamming in the visitors, from every county and country.