Michael McClafferty

But what they're calling the end of it, we want a proper, humane deer call done when it's been carried out.

One shot, one kill.

Not just, as I said to David, taking a chance with a rifle and hoping for the best to shoot the animal.

We have to get the numbers down.

It would tell me, Clare, that we seem to have a huge deer population.

That's what it would tell me, to be quite honest with you.

There's clearly a huge deer population when the call is being carried out and the numbers are still going up.

It says to me, you know, we must have a lot of deers through the place.

But at the same time, Killian's point is well made there and well respected.

An actual count would be welcome.

I'd say that would be welcome.

A dear census definitely would be welcome to find out.

But I would say at the same time, still running alongside our culling system that's there at the moment, to be fair, Claire, to everybody as well, because as Kelly and Cessnaire, as I started with you there, they do cause a lot of problems.

They do cause a lot of problems with forest issues and so on, for farmers in particular, planting vegetables, planting crops.

planting their crops, they're on the air, they smash a lot of fences, they do a lot of damage.

There's all these kind of things going on as well, as I say, alongside causing car accidents.

Many, many cars here in Donegal have been smashed and written off.

And unfortunately, there's nobody taking responsibility for them.

At the end of the day, like I said to David there this morning, the deers were introduced here years and years ago.

They didn't just suddenly arrive, they were introduced here.