Mooney Goes Wild RTE

It’s been a whirlwind of activity and emotion over the last few days as to everyone’s disgust one of the herons on a recent installation of a wildlife scene of flying bird’s bulrushes and reeds was stolen from the velvet cross roundabout in Cobh County Cork. We are busy on social media and press starting a campaign to recover our bird call #bringourbirdback it’s only been a few days but we do hope that he is recovered and placed back where he belongs. I have been invited to talk about my work and the theft of the heron with Derek Mooney in the hope that the more people that know about him will be on the lookout for him and get him home where he belongs and has many friends awaiting his return. One of the residents of Cobh wrote the most fantastic and humorous poem about the bird. Enjoy

Come Back Harry Heron



Please come back Harry Heron

What in the world is occurin’?

You were here the briefest time

And now you’re gone, it’s such a crime!

You didn’t get a chance to settle,

To prove your worth and show your metal

Yu had hardly landed when

You had dissiappeared again!

We’re shocked and Angry, Harry Heron

The whole community’s concurrin’

Without you’ there’s an empty space.

Missing birds are hard to trace.

We’ll try to find you, Harry Heron

Let there be no doubt or no Demurrin’

This truly is an awful scandal!

We’re hoping you’re too hot to handle!

Harry Heron, we want you back,

to nest in Cobh and enjoy the craic,

But… depending on where you've been,

You might just have to quarantine!

Marion Rose Horgan July 2020

Please I only currently sell my work directly and the majority of my piece are commissioned so this piece if you see it is not for resale. Please call the Garda.

Thank you