Donna Mullen

Oh, well, I have a peculiar job, Ciarán.

I survey for bats, which is absolutely the best job in the world.

It's fantastic.

We're out at night time and we've got all our equipment and we have equipment in the car.

So we go out just, you know, probably an hour or two after, around sunset.

And then we go back at about three in the morning and we stay out until five looking for bats.

And the other night we were out and my son went back to his car in Dublin at Budgie Park car park.

And it was all smashed up.

The window was smashed and all his bad equipment was taken, all our bad equipment, clothes.

And like this equipment is going to be absolutely useless to anybody apart from us.

But to us, it's kind of very important stuff.

So, yeah.

Well, a bat detector, a song meter, many.

Like, every bat has a different voice.

So you can take recordings of their voices and then you run it through a programme and you can tell a bit like each bird's song.

They each have their own voice.

You can tell what's there.

So first of all, there's obviously the bat detector, which

is a disaster to lose because you can't exactly buy another one tomorrow from a shop.

You have to order them and they're tricky to get.