Outdoor Living

NATURE John Shelley stumbles upon a mass movement of thousands of slugs, all on a road, and many eating each other

CULTURE Retired fisherman Brian McNeill reflects on Achill’s shark-fishing history and the return of the gentle giants

OUTDOOR LIVING John Shelley has close encounters with two bats in one day – a stowaway pipistrelle and an intruding Lesser horseshoe

OUTDOOR LIVING Freshwater crustaceans will almost certainly disappear if outbreak happens

NATURE May is a time when the most delicate of things take to the air in the hope of fostering a new generation

GARDENING Mayo blacksmith teams up with aid agency GOAL to create meaningful and moving Bloom garden

NATURE While on the look out for a local otter, John Shelley observes the annual upstream migration of roach – and a lot more

NATURE John Shelley hopes to lure an otter out of hiding by tempting him with a small pail of chopped and mashed pickled herrings

NATURE Controlling the mink population in Ireland is nigh on impossible so long as fur farms continue to operate here

NATURE John Shelley encounters an plucky otter and discovers a mutual fascination