{"id":384832,"date":"2026-04-06T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384832\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:08:08","slug":"lost-parrot-causes-a-flap-at-dublin-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384832\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost parrot causes a flap at Dublin Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Parrott&#8217;s heroic soccer performances almost got Ireland to the World Cup and resulted in calls for Dublin Airport to be renamed after him.<\/p>\n<p>But now a very different parrot &#8211; of the feathered kind &#8211; has been causing a flap there.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, a parrot was found in a carpark at the airport and authorities are desperate to reunite the bird with its owner.<\/p>\n<p>They were unsure initially if the parrot was male or female, but in an update on X this afternoon, &#8216;Troy&#8217; has been confirmed as a female Alexandrine parakeet after a vet check.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Update on Troy \ud83e\udd9c<\/p>\n<p>Our lovely lady Troy has been confirmed as a female Alexandrine parakeet after a vet check this morning.<\/p>\n<p>She is safe, happy and being very well looked after by the Airport Police unit, but she would really like to go home.<\/p>\n<p>If you recognise her or have any\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1WrE8cV3Dc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1WrE8cV3Dc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DublinAirport\/status\/2041147735642927453\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Kevin Cullinane, Deputy Director of Communications at daa, described how the parrot was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on RT\u00c9&#8217;s News at One, he said: &#8220;Two of my airport police colleagues were on a routine patrol at Dublin Airport on Easter Sunday with their dog, Jimmy, when they were alerted by two Dublin Express coach sellers to a parrot perched on one of the bins outside Terminal 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, one of the officers had some nuts in his pocket as it happened. So he approached the parrot and the parrot seemed to be quite hungry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thought it was a he at the time. We subsequently think it may be a she. But the parrot was happy to eat out of his hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"parrot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/00242c14-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAirport police were alerted to a parrot perched on a bin outside Terminal 1<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cullinane said that &#8216;Troy&#8217; flew onto the officer&#8217;s shoulder and even his head.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the airport garda station they improvised a temporary home by taking an old dog crate and an old brush handle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"parrot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/00242c13-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nTroy flew onto an officer&#8217;s shoulder<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The parrot was quite happy to perch on the brush handle inside the dog crate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They gave it some more food and some of the dog&#8217;s toys from the canine unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he\/she has been carefully looked after overnight while efforts are ongoing to try and return the parrot to his rightful home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He urged the owner of the parrot to contact airport police at Dublin Airport 01 944 7777.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Airport Police found a real life parrot just before 2pm today around Terminal 1 \ud83e\udd9c DM us if you have information! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GetParrotHome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GetParrotHome<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IrishNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#IrishNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RH16ECnIPc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/RH16ECnIPc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DublinAirport\/status\/2040819337141919870\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Parrott&#8217;s heroic soccer performances almost got Ireland to the World Cup and resulted in calls for Dublin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-384832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}