Robert Rafferty

Well, first of all, I'd like to thank you for having me on the show.

I really appreciate it.

Much appreciated.

Yeah, so, where do I begin with this?

Yeah, so the nightmare has been going on now a couple of weeks now.

I'd say about three weeks now.

And basically, we have a very bad rat problem around the area.

in Clondalkin.

And he had managed to get into the home, into the house.

And it's just now, it's just been the worst couple of weeks of me life, basically.

So basically what happened was one ran in through the front door, which we see in.

and we thought it was just a stray one because this had happened back in 2019 where one ran in through the front door as well.

We didn't see it.

It got up the stairs, and it caused havoc.

At that time in 2019, my wife was pregnant, and to say that she had to leave the house because she was pregnant with the disease that the rats carry, she had to leave, and the rat had to be caught while she was out of the house.

Now, that was just an aptitude.

Sorry, that was just maybe a rat that just came in,

and what happened then was, so fast forward on now, the same thing happened, ran in through the door, but it started getting worse than that, so what had happened was, he ran in through the door, and we thought it was just one that ran in, and went into the kitchen, couldn't catch it, so it got underneath the kitchen unit, so we took the kitchen unit down, the bar down, laid a trap, and later on that night,

When we woke up the next morning, we heard a snap and it had been found and we thought everything was done and dusted.

So fast forward on then a week later, after we thought everything was done and dusted, we were sitting in the sitting room having dinner on a Saturday night as a normal family does.