NAVAN, Ireland — A pub that closed its doors during lockdown is now serving a menagerie of very different clientele after transforming into Ireland’s first wildlife hospital.
The bar of the Tara Na Ri pub in County Meath to the northwest of Dublin is now deserted, the blinds pulled down, the Guinness taps dry and the till empty.
But the pub’s outbuildings are a hive of activity.
In one, a member of staff bottle-feeds Liam, a two-week-old wild Irish goat who was found on a mountainside.
Three swans nest on straw in former stables, a skittish fox settles in a new enclosure, and a wide-eyed buzzard is being nursed back to health.
“We were very much accustomed …
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