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Irish pub set to reopen after being converted into animal welfare centre
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Irish pub set to reopen after being converted into animal welfare centre

ALTHOUGH pubs around the country have been suffering the full brunt of Covid-19 restrictions for almost an entire year now, one in Co. Meath has a found a creative - and genuinely lovely - way to open its doors again.

The Tara Na Ri pub in Navan has been converted into an animal welfare centre, and will now be serving drinks of a different kind - rehabilitating ones.

They'll be caring for animals who have been injured, orphaned, abandoned, or those who are simply in need of a good cheering up and a cuddle.

The facility has become the new headquarters for Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland (WRI), a charity which aims to improve wildlife welfare and conservation across the country.

WRI Chairperson Heidi Bedell says the premises being made available couldn't have come at a better time.

Speaking to LMFM, she said: "In the Spring we get an awful lot of orphans where the parents have either abandoned the animal or something has happened to the parent.

"So we expect to get a lot of baby hedgehogs, badgers and baby foxes."

The charity will take use of the stables behind the pub, on the half-acre site.

The upstairs of the pub will provide room for administration and accommodation for the group's volunteers.