Intrepid voles likely came to Ireland via Foynes machinery

I was chuffed (that’s not ‘choughed’, now, and birds are few in this column) to hear the virtues of voles much lauded on the Living the Wildlife RTÉ 1 programme on Tuesday last week, writes Damien Enright.

Only a few days before, Paddy Sleeman, a mammal researcher working at UCC, and I had been talking about “the little critters”, as he called them.