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Wed 10 Oct 2010Making a party animal of a 'kangaroo'

A packed 30th birthday party is no place for a live marsupial. They're not even suitable pets, writes Rosita Boland

ALL SORTS of bizarre things can happen in the heightened atmosphere of a big birthday party, but the sudden appearance of a marsupial on the dancefloor at Dublin’s Liffey Valley Clarion Hotel on Saturday night was a new and unwelcome one for the staff working there.