Michael McClafferty

I don't necessarily agree with that, Clare, to be fair, because our deer population doesn't seem to be really decreasing that much, to be fair about it.

As for the car end of it, look, I'm not going to disagree with Cillian on that.

All I can do is go by the amount of cars getting smashed around here, obviously.

But the ironic thing is, Clare, here where the cars get smashed in most places, they are deer signs up, so people are aware.

And it's not necessarily visitors either, youth of the area, that cars are getting smashed.

It's local people that are aware the deers are about.

But unfortunately, the deers run in front.

When I say deers run in front, Clare, and they get smashed, you're dealing with maybe five, eight, ten deers running across the road together.

So it's unedible like that, you know, what's your best intention?

No matter how you manage, it's unedible to miss them all.

And this is the reality.

And if you do swerve to miss them, to miss them yourself in certain situations, you know, the chances are then you're going to crash into whoever's beside you on the other side, like, you know, maybe end up injuring or killing somebody.

So at the end of the day, there's a lot of factors to come in here as well.

I don't necessarily buy into it that speed is the problem.

I buy into what I would say is the fact that here we have so many deers here in Donegal and the Parks and Wildlife and others are not catering for them now at the moment due to the increase that is there.

And like other places I understand, elsewhere throughout Ireland, what's happening at the moment, when motorways are built and so on, there's fences and whatnot put up along the motorways and roads in particular as well, new roads, so that the deers and that can't be running onto the roads.

We don't unfortunately at the moment, here's Kelly and Will and O's here in Donegal, we don't have the fencing here at the moment to keep them safe either.

I wouldn't feel comfortable at all about it, Clare, because while Killian may have his point on that aspect of it, the main thing is here, how is it going to be managed?

How is it going to be done safely?

I mean, both myself, yourself and Killian, we're all of an age where we can recall from our younger days, Benji, the TV programme and so on, being on a three dog.