Irish Deer Commission

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The deer was pictured on the southbound platform in Glenageary train station on Friday morning by Ronan O’Keeffe who posted it on Twitter saying it looked “very disoriented”. Photograph: Ronan O’Keeffe.
Oh! A deer, a southside deer - stray animal seen in Dublin may be household pet

Conservationists are mystified as to the presence of a young deer which has been seen wandering the Dart line in south Dublin. The young Sika stag w(...)

Wicklow accounts for over a third of all deer shot by licensed hunters in Ireland in the last hunting season, and a high concentration of deer in certain areas has been linked to outbreaks of TB. Photograph: Wild Deer Association of Ireland
Deer culling programme in Wicklow to intensify

Plans to cull possibly thousands of wild deer in Co Wicklow are to be stepped up next month with the setting-up of teams to police animal populations (...)

Once they have killed and gutted a deer, poachers mark the location with GPS for later collection. File photograph: Getty Images
‘Wildlife criminals’ targeted in new plan

Wildlife criminals, including deer poachers and gangs capturing wild birds for sale abroad, “are pillaging the countryside”, according to the senior g(...)