PICTURE: 'Keep your eyes open,' swan and her eight cygnets by a river in Carlow Town

A swan has laid nine eggs by a river in Carlow Town and eight hatched. 

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Pictures taken by voluntary group, Cairde an Naduir, show the mother and cygnets on their nest by the river bank. 

Volunteer, Eugene Walsh, said: "Please keep your eyes open for eight cygnets. They may have gone down river."