West Cork councillors call for deer cull as motorists report ‘near misses’

Councillors in west Cork are calling on the National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) to address the growing problem of wild deer on public roads across the region.

The issue was raised in a motion by Finbarr Harrington (Independent) at a recent meeting of Cork County Council’s West Cork Municipal District.

Mr Harrington proposed: “That this council would liaise with NPWS to address the major problem and many traffic accidents happening on our public roadways caused by the currently overpopulated deer and their link to the possible spread of disease in both humans and farm animals.”

Mr Harrington told the meeting he had received many calls from motorists all over west Cork who had near misses and accidents involving deer on the roads, particularly at night and in the early hours of the morning.

He said: “A lady from Urhan contacted me, she had ran into a deer on the road and, as well as the danger, it ended up costing her €3,000 to repair her car.

“There have been many…

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