{"id":461595,"date":"2026-05-22T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461595\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:42:11","slug":"falcons-make-home-atop-cork-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461595\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons make home atop Cork cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The wonders of nature can still be seen in our cities &#8211; if you look closely enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">In the second episode of the wildlife series  Back From The Brink on RT\u00c91 tomorrow at 6.30pm, we catch a glimpse of that in Cork city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A pair of peregrine falcons named Macheda and Solomon are living the high life atop St Fin Barre\u2019s Cathedral, helped to nest by the conservation efforts of Sam Bayley of the National Parks &amp; Wildlife Service, and Alan McCarthy of Birdwatch Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">In the episode, we see the next generation arrive as a chick is hatched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Pupils from the nearby St. Marie\u2019s of the Isle National School keep a close eye on camera footage which shows the nest\u2019s comings and goings, as the chick, named Hope by the children, prepares to fly the coop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Meanwhile, in Slovenia, Derek Mooney meets a team of botanists from University of Ljubljana Gardens who joined forces with the city council to transform bus shelter roofs into roof gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wonders of nature can still be seen in our cities &#8211; if you look closely enough. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[14641,61,60,82,282,263],"class_list":["post-461595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-cork-city","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-tv","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461595","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=461595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}