Culling gulls is wrong and illegal, more focus is needed on waste management, seagull population has actually declined. To debate if a cull is needed Pat was joined on the show by Labour Galway City Councillor and former Galway mayor Niall McNelis and Galway-based Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly.

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