The fox is out every night.

Even the animals know that this talk of an economic recovery in rural Ireland is pure bullshit.Well the Dunderry Fox knows anyhow.
He feels free to patrol the village every night shortly after midnight inspecting each building in the village ,safe in the knowledge that he will not be disturbed in his routine.
Over the Christmas he relieved us of our chickens and I hear that he and his buddies also raided the Yellow Walls and committed similar larcenies there,
He checks out my gaff regularly to suss out if we have got replacements ,mosies over to Horans,then Geraghty's and thence by the back of the Church over to Flanagan's Shop ,which he susses out back and front before  heading for Dowds .
I am not kidding.