Moycullen man’s budgie success

Date Published: 09-Oct-2008

DECLAN Mullally is for the birds and it wouldn’t be the first time he’s heard that because he really is passionate about his feathered friends….the breeding budgies, that is, the ones he keeps at the bottom of his suburban garden.

His passion and dedication certainly paid off with hisrecent success at the Budgiergar Society World Championships in the English city of Doncaster, where he won no less than 19 prizes and five trophies. And his eight year old daughter Emma won four ‘first in class’ and Best Junior Spangle as well as coming fifth Best in show in the junior category for breeders under 16.

A native of Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, Declan moved to Galway 13 years ago and lives in Moycullen village with his wife Tina and their two daughters. His interest in birds started when he acquired two budgies at the age of eight – the same age Emma is now.

However, his interest intensified twelve years ago when he built a shed at the bottom of his garden for a growing collection of exotic birds. But slowly he confined his collection to budgies when he realised they were easy birds to handle.

Then he started breeding them. It wasn’t until…