The Irish Sunday Tribune in it`s times past section offers this amazing story from The Leinster Journal of 4 April 1767,

" From Killarney in the county of Kerry we are told that one Laughlin Brady lately attempted to rob an Eagle`s nest over the famous Lake in that place, within sight of the parent bird. The Eagle flew at him with great fierceness, upon which he tried to make a prudent retreat, but being too precipitate, he slipped from the rock and fell into the Lake.

This circumstance would not have been attended with any fatal consequence, as he was an excellent swimmer, had not the Eagle pursued him into the water and striking with unceasing fury at his head, reduced him to the necessity of diving every moment, so that he became quite exhausted and eventually drowned.

It is rematkable that when the body was taken from the water, the eyes were picked out of the head and the whole face was so dreadfully mangled that a more shocking spectacle could not be raised up to imagination".

Take notice all of you birds egg collectors and remember the tale of the poor unfortunate Laughin Brady.