Caberfeidh wrote:No-one seems to have thought that it may have been a kamikaze mission on the part of the sheep.
I did wonder if it was not a sheep at all, but some Irish equivalent of the Australasian drop-bear. I couldn't find any such thing on a web search though, so maybe it was just a sheep.
I did, however, find a reference to "drop haggis" - so be careful out there, folks!