A number of ravenous seagulls are swooping in on full shopping trolleys leaving a supermarket in Co Galway, I heard last week.

In one case, a pound and a half of sliced ham was robbed from a shopping trolley, leaving the pusher of the trolley in shock and a farmer with no ham for a sandwich.

Another rural dweller told me that the seagulls are “massive yokes” and that they wait, watching, on the roof of the supermarket to see where they can swoop next. Mind them trolleys.