There was a piglet on the loose at Priest’s Cross at lunchtime today (Thursday 6th Aug. 2015) and was eventually caught further up on the Drishane Road. Traffic was held up, the Gardaí were called and, as of yet, no one knows who owns the pig!” UPDATE: Happily the Piglet has now been returned to its home! Click on the images to enlarge. (S.R.)
… the video below is just a litlle fun 🙂
This poor piglet. Only for this tourist he wouldn’t have been caught. He was too fast for me anyway!!
my first night in millstreet, and this came up in conversation at corkerys.
AHH the issues of the world.
Enjoy Millstreet Joseph
Regards
No story for to be published too small or too big
Sean Radley online has published the story of Catching The Pig
At the Priest’s Cross in Millstreet in Duhallow a piglet running free
Disrupting the traffic this is something nowadays one often does not see
The famed photographer Fr James McSweeney happened for to be passing by
For a few good images for to go with a story one who has an eye
For to catch the piglet a few did give chase
But he dodged them left and right and he picked up the pace
By a piglet on the loose at Priest’s Cross traffic brought to a standstill
Till a young passing tourist with good pig catching skill
Gave chase and successfully ran the runaway down
On the busy roadway near old Millstreet Town
It is on the Millstreet Website for all to be seen
An Garda Siochana were even present at the scene
Where a freedom loving piglet was on the run about
Though of this being a newsworthy story some may even doubt
But in Millstreet a Town of Hurling and Gaelic Football
To be published no story too big or no story too small
And from the Town in Duhallow’s old green countryside
The story of Catching The Pig it has gone Worldwide.
“Catching The Pig” is by Francis Duggan
http://francisrhymer.blogspot.ie/2015/08/catching-pig.html
(added by mdc)
Francis … Delighted that the story had such a happy ending in that the piglet was brought back to his home. All credit goes to Fr. James for having recorded the happening but now with your marvellous poem “Catching the Pig” is now part of Millstreet’s written history! Many thanks.