Kerry cull targets Red Deer: Parks Service must do better

In recent weeks the RSPCA trumpeted the “incredible story” of Marina, a seal returned to the wild after “six months of rehabilitation she so urgently needed”. On the same day the charity defended culling seals by Scottish salmon farms, an industry that generously supports the RSPCA.

The same dynamic, or a version of it, is in play in the National Park in Killarney where an intensive deer cull is ongoing. Red Deer are targetted along with the non-native sika deer, according to the National Parks and Wildlife Service.