A baby hedgehog who was rescued by a member of the public after he became entangled in plastic is nearly ready to go back into the wild.

Harry the Hoglet was treated by vets in Drogheda, County Louth, who managed to remove a tight band of netting deeply embedded in his chest.

The ISPCA is asking people to discard of their rubbish properly.

Chief Executive Dr Andrew Kelly says Harry would have starved to death if he hadn't been found: