{"id":386912,"date":"2026-04-07T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386912\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:34:08","slug":"lost-parrot-reunited-with-owner-after-dublin-airport-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386912\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost parrot reunited with owner after Dublin Airport stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parrot found in a car park at Dublin Airport over the weekend has been reunited with its owner.<\/p>\n<p>Lola, the two-year-old Alexandrine parakeet briefly named Troy by airport staff, was reunited with her owner Gheorghe Sava this evening and was brought back home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/dublin\/2026\/0406\/1566909-dublin-airport-parrot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lola was discovered on Easter Sunday afternoon by two airport police officers on a routine patrol 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lola at her home\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/00242d9a-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nLola with her fellow feathered friend Zazu at home (Photo credit: Dublin Airport)<\/p>\n<p>After a friendly interaction, a temporary home was provided to Lola in an old dog crate.<\/p>\n<p>Officers gave Lola some more food and some of the dog&#8217;s toys from the canine unit.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Lola is officially back home.<\/p>\n<p>After being spotted near Terminal 1, cared for by Airport Police and briefly rebranded as &#8220;Troy&#8221;, she has now been reunited with her owner, Gheorghe, this evening.<\/p>\n<p>We were able to confirm Gheorghe was Lola&#8217;s owner through her tag number and her\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5VcP42vZc3\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5VcP42vZc3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dublin Airport (@DublinAirport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DublinAirport\/status\/2041579654184923173\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They soon discovered her love of bananas, apples, watermelon and strawberries.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for daa, which operates Dublin Airport, said that the team were able to confirm Mr Sava was Lola&#8217;s owner through her tag number and her reaction to hearing her name.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Parrot Lola on her owner's shoulder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/00242d99-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nStaff said that Lola was very vocal when she was not getting attention (Photo credit: Dublin Airport)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this happen, and a special shoutout to the Airport Police K9 unit who built Lola a custom cage and kept her well fed,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A parrot found in a car park at Dublin Airport over the weekend has been reunited with its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-386912","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\/386912","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=386912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}