Recently retired Biology teacher with a passion for wildlife. RTÉ Radio 1 Reporter with Mooney Goes Wild and wildlife documentary maker.

Dublin
Joined March 2010
“Spotted” these two hiding in an Oak tree in our local park. @NatureRTE #insects
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Tonight on “Mooney Goes Wild” (RTÉ Radio One at 10) I visit the recently reopened Herbarium in Trinity College Dublin to chat with Dr Peter Moonlight, curator of the herbarium. @NatureRTE #TCD #Botany
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This week on “Mooney Goes Wild” I travel to Co Clare to meet June Woodward and hear about the success of her nesting barn owls 🦉. Just look at this young bird trying to swallow a rat whole! Fantastic video clips by June. @NatureRTE #Birds
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Learn how to take photos like this. Tonight I’m in Dunsink Observatory with photographer Anthony Lynch who explains how to take photos of the moon and night sky using your mobile phone “Mooney Goes Wild”. 10pm RTÉ Radio One. Photo by Anthony Lynch. @NatureRTE #photographybynight
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Terry Flanagan retweeted
Starling, transitioning into its winter plumage. #birds #birding #winter 📷
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Tonight on “Mooney Goes Wild” I’m in Co. Wicklow with Declan Murphy checking out the butterflies and hawk moths on a “butterfly bush”. Declan explains why this has been an incredible summer for butterflies. @NatureRTE #Butterflies
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Some of the hundreds of stunning butterflies in the Butterfly House at Malahide in Dublin. Well worth a visit. Phots by Pascal Murphy who looks after them. @RTENature #insects
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Tonight on “Mooney Goes Wild” (RTÉ Radio One at 10pm) a selection of some of the best reports over the last number of years, including a visit to Wild Ireland in Co. Donegal to see these magnificent wolves (sound on). @NatureRTE
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What would you do? Free him or spider’s dinner? @NatureRTE #insects #wildlife
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What would you do? Free him or spiders dinner?
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Tonight on “Mooney Goes Wild” (RTÉ Radio One at 10), I’m in Co. Kildare with Nikola Brady and her infected Horse Chestnut trees. What is the problem and how can it be solved? Tune in at 10. @NatureRTE #Trees #Insects
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Replying to @fdcsticks
I'm a qualified marine biologist and I've tagged shark in Irish waters for years. We don't have highly aggressive shark species in Irish waters, we just don't. Any bite in our waters is purely defensive. Same goes for most animals bites; defensive.
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Terry Flanagan retweeted
Epic Solar Eclipse from the Phoenix Park Dublin yesterday. #ShotOniPhone #iPhone17ProMax #Apple #ShotOniPhone17ProMax #ShotWithiPhone
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Great evening in Dunsink Observatory. Thanks to everyone at DIAS. Photos by Peter Flanagan, or should I say , “the young fella”
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Waiting for the eclipse
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Tonight on “Mooney Goes Wild” (RTÉ Radio One at 10) I’m in Co. Kildare watching a family of barn owls being ringed and hearing about the success of the barn owl nest box scheme in the Co. ongoing for a number of years now. @NatureRTE #Birdwatchireland
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Terry Flanagan retweeted
15 mins after recording this video, I was stunned to see 4 Painted Lady Butterflies (Vanessa cardui), scarce in our garden, with 4 other species at the same time. Friends reporting a big influx around the country. @Butterfly_IE @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife @FingalBiodiv
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Painted Lady cleaning its proboscis or feeding tube while sunbathing on the patio @NatureRTE #Butterflies
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Beautiful comma butterfly. Can you spot the “comma” on the underside of the wing? @NatureRTE #butterfly
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Stunning hummingbird hawk moth spotted on the “butterfly bush” in Newcastle Co. Wicklow this morning @NatureRTE
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