A peregrine falcon who was being kept as a pet is not to be found.
The search is on for the peregrine falcon named Camogie who went missing in County Wicklow.
She followed a crow, got blown off course and alas never found her way back.
Camogie has been gone for four months, her owner, Christianne Hutchinson, has been desperately searching for her ever since. Camogie has bells on her legs and two weeks ago was spotted in Palmerstown perching on the roof of a house on and off for ten days. The children who live on the street would hear her coming before they saw her and named her, Jingle Bells. Camogie failed to recognise her owners when they went to retrieve her and flew off.
Christianne Hutchinson talks about the importance of Camogie to her family. She got Camogie the same weekend that she met her husband and there is an emotional attachment to the bird for the entire family.
If we could find Camogie, it would be the nicest Christmas present that we could dream of.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 19 December 1999. The reporter is Roisín Duffy.
