JUST as time was rapidly running out for an unfortunate crow stuck high on a rooftop of a Killarney town centre apartment block, for over two days, the timely intervention of the incoming Mayor of Killarney saved the bird from certain death and set it free.
Concern had been mounting for the welfare of the stranded crow who appeared to have got stuck in the wiring of a TV aerial on Monday.
Staff at the Kerry Diocesan Youth Service headquarters at Fairhill first heard a bird in distress at around 2 o’clock that afternoon and they later spotted a crow, that didn’t seem to be able to move, perched on an aerial on the roof of a nearby building.
Several of its feathered friends kept circling and landing close by that evening and the next day in an apparent show of solidarity but there was still no budging the trapped bird.
Mark O’Donoghue, who works in the KDYS, said he and other staff members became very concerned for the crow’s welfare and brought the matter to the attention of animal welfare groups and several other people. There was an expectation, however, that the crow would eventually be able to free itself from its lofty pedestal.
Conscientious Mark today contacted KillarneyToday.com to highlight the matter and we, in turn, brought the plight of the lonesome crow to the attention of Cllr Niall Kelleher whose constituency office is in an adjacent building.
Cllr Kelleher, who is expected to be elected Mayor of Killarney this Friday, this evening engaged the services of a maintenance man who was able to gain access to the roof and free the crow who took flight immediately and looked none the worse for its ordeal.
The mayor-elect obviously realises that there are no votes to be gained from Kerry’s growing crow community and it won’t move him up the pecking order in the ballot box but, he is likely to insist, it was all in the caw of duty.
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