Talking to some friends recently I casually mentioned the story of the bear in the Liffey. A big black, fully grown dead bear was found in the Liffey back in April 1983. Of course it’s not the sort of thing you expect to find in the Liffey every day. A bear is more at home in the jungle climbing trees and eating bananas rather than doing the breast stroke down the Liffey. I was hit with the bad news: the bear had been dispatched by the council workers to the nearest dump.

Source: The Irish Times April 01, 2019 00:00 UTC