Why did the chicken cross the road?

The answer appears to be "to get to Mary and Fay's house.."


I came home from Mugs one day (the Internet cafe in Dalkey) only to be confronted with a real live chicken at the front door. It was standing between me and the door... maybe a new guard chicken? At any rate, I knew I couldn't open the door because it would fly (or cluck its way) into the house. I just started laughing, I mean who is greeted by a chicken when they come home? My laughing offended it and the bird hoped the fence and went into the yard. I walked in the house laughing too hard to tell them what was going on (writing this it doesn't seem as funny as it actually was..) I managed to say chicken front door, and Mary thought I was "puting her on" until she saw chicken shit at the front door.

So now we can hear the bird, but cant see it. It had gotten stuck in the hedge! Fay was trying to call his brother Eamon (the guy who owns the donkey too...) because he's the only one in the area with a chicken. Turns out it was his. The thing managed to get out, wander down the hill, turn right, wander up onto the terrace and stop at our door. It took them almost 20 min to get the thing out of the shrub, but at the end of the day the chicken was saved!














Here you see Eamon and Mary getting the chicken into a bag so it can go back up the road...