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“A people and a nation can bejudged by the way it treats itsanimal population”Pat NolanPat Nolan is a small build of a man. He is dressed up against the cold. With his shaggy beard andweather beaten countenance he looks like Ian Anderson, the lead singer of the 1970s rock groupJethro Tull. The swirling music of Anderson and the Jethro Tull band seems to convey the noisy and rowdy god,Pan, smashed on the wine provided by fellow deity Bacchus.The appeal of ancient deities is not to the other worldbut this world with all its carnal and physical reality.There is no suggestion that Pat Nolan is some sort of pagan throwback.On the contrary he is very much concerned with the here and now. If he has anything in common with our pagan ancestorsit is his respect for nature andfor nature's other creatures.For him the god Pan,represented with his upperpart of a man and the bodyand legs of a goat, is not somegrotesque hybrid but a logicalanalogy of the closenessbetween human animals and“his respect for nature andfor nature’s other creatures”non-human animals. Our brothers and sisters are not confined to our species but to all species to which we are aligned byevolution. In this sense we are all evolutionary comrades in the struggle of life.Pat Nolan is daily confronted with the struggle to make ends meet at Bright Eyes Animal Sanctuary somewhere outsideBallinamallard in County Fermanagh.The name of the tidy village means the Ford of the Horsemen. One time in the distant
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