Rural Ireland is tough. There's the isolation, the rain, the endless, endless diddly music. Sure, you might like the idea of living in the greenest place on Earth, but it probably does grate on you after 400 consecutive days without seeing the sky for the clouds.
Sometimes you wanna just curl up in a ball and hope it all blows over. Well, one West Cork seal appears to have done exactly that, only in the middle of the road.
That's what Edgars Bokums found as he was on his daily commute to Crookhaven.
"I was heading to work when I came across him in the middle of the road, he looked very frightened," said Edgars on Cork's 96FM Opinion Line. "He was about 100 metres out from the water. I think he might have been confused because he didn't know how to get back."
Edgars managed to put on the brakes on in time to avoid any major incidents, but he still had the issue of how to remove a seal from the street. Luckily, Crookhaven is hardly a bustling metropolis at the best of times, so he had plenty of time to move the seal.
"He was a baby seal because I was able to lift him, he only weighed about eight or nine kilograms," said Edgars. "I managed to get him into one of the boxes I had in the van and I took him back down to the beach."
"I was worried he would bite me because he was making lots of noise and he was watching me the whole time, so I put a box on top of him as well. I was glad to be able to get him back home."
As anyone who has travelled to certain parts of the West of Ireland will know, seals are pretty much a law unto themselves and liable to turn up in unexpected places.
There's several that have turned up slightly worse for wear and had to be rescued in recent weeks, in Galway and in Dublin, while on Great Blasket Island, the seals basically run the gaff now and the caretakers, who are picked from thousands of applicants, are essentially their tenants.
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