Legend has it that St Patrick banished snakes from Ireland, however a Cork man lately discovered proof on the contrary when he noticed one slithering alongside the tracks close to Kent Station.
Colm Twohig was out walking with a colleague when he got here throughout the snake. It is considered a non-venomous escaped household pet.
Colm and his co-worker Siobhan Horgan had gone to see the brand new factors system on the railway monitor on the finish of Myrtle Hill in Cork once they observed what seemed to be a snake.
“We were looking at it and walked over towards it and next thing it moved. ‘Cripes, what’s that?’ I said.
“It had to be a snake, you wouldn’t expect to see a snake down around here.”
Colm mentioned he and Siobhan moved nearer to the creature to get a greater look.
“I took out my camera then to videotape it. And his head was up two inches staring at us. We went around to the back of him and he moved off,” he told on Cork’s 96FM.
“We thought we might pick it up, we didn’t know if it was dangerous or not. We thought it might be a corn snake. I got close to him and I thought ‘Will I or won’t I (pick him up)?’
“We decided to get gloves and a bag to put him into it.”
Colm and one other colleague, Des Murphy, went again all the way down to the spot with gloves and a bag. However, Colm mentioned that sadly, they have been unable to seek out the snake.
“We couldn’t find him at all. He won’t survive in this weather. We were frantically looking around. He was a lovely-looking thing about three foot long. He was frightened.
“He was right beside the train track. He was crossing the track when we spotted him. We thought it was a bit of cloth first. Hopefully he isn’t dead.”
The pair had hoped to rescue the snake with a view to reunite it with its proprietor. A member of employees from Fota Wildlife Park additionally travelled to the scene in a bid to seek out the snake to no avail.
