The first patients have arrived at Ireland's first hospital dedicated to sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. The Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland (WRI) facility opens tomorrow in the grounds of a Co Meath pub shuttered because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Stables to the rear of the Tara Na Rí pub in Garlow Cross, on the outskirts of Navan, are being converted to accommodate animals and birds.
A portacabin houses an intensive care unit. Examining a buzzard with a fractured wing, WRI Animal Manager Dan Donoher said: "We are going to cater for every native Irish wildlife species here. "That could mean treating anything from a tiny mouse to a seal, a badger or a swan. "I have been working in wildlife rehabilitation for 18 years now and to be