Owen Murphy
speaker
684 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Jun
Owen Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's all true.
Loads of other things have impacts on birds.
So when we and the state and Europe are investing money and trying to protect some of our ground nesting birds, it's important that we look at all the factors so that if we're paying landowners to manage land in a certain way, if we're paying nest protection officers to try and keep nests safe, if we're collecting data, if we're doing scientific studies, well, if part of the problem is free roaming cats, well, we need to look at how we address that.
And, you know, keeping cats in...
and seeing, you know, stopping them, I suppose, from accessing the wider countryside.
You know, if people want to have cats out in their own garden, I mean, I can't advocate for what somebody does in their own private garden.
But once that cat goes outside your garden, it's not hurting wildlife.
You don't know what it's doing.
Yeah, and I think that's already the case.
I think the Blue Cross do subsidise neutering of cats.
It certainly has been a scheme.
Some of the local bets and at loan at one stage were advertising and Roscommon were advertising
So that's definitely something.
All those steps, I mean, that would be hugely beneficial, especially for cats that are outdoor cats or feral cats.
And maybe, I mean, something to do with breeding cats or having to have a license to breed cats, because a lot of the time, you know, we have a cat and then the cat has kittens and the kittens disperse and go off about or we give them to neighbours or friends.
And, you know, it sort of it just keeps the ball rolling and we just keep getting more and more cats.
They said it couldn't be done.
Yeah.
Oil and water.
Wilson, I know he was on with us five days ago, but I thought he did so well that we've asked him back.
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