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In recent weeks, Green Party leader Eamonn Ryan speculated that it might be a good idea to reintroduce wolves to Ireland, though they have been absent for nearly 250 years.

In recent weeks, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan speculated that it might be a good idea to reintroduce wolves to Ireland, though they have been absent for nearly 250 years.

In that two and a half centuries, our countryside has changed utterly and the circumstances that might once have supported a population of wolves no longer exist. Any reintroduction seems a misjudgement that might have unhappy consequences, especially for the back-to-the-future wolves.