Galway’s Porridge Oats Crisis
9 June - 5 mins
Podcast Series
Dave & Fionnuala on iRadio
Galway is under attack… and it’s not the traffic or the rain. It’s one mystery person spreading porridge oats for the pigeons all over the city centre.
Dave and Fionnuala try to get their heads around how a “harmless” act has turned into a full-blown nuisance - oats everywhere, pigeons lapping them up, and now claims it’s attracting rats and vermin.
Producer Leah joins with what she saw along Merchant’s Road - pillars dotted in oats like it’s normal.
With Galway City Council “all out of ideas” and even talk of trips, falls and broken hips, the gang asks: what can actually be done?
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