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Scout likes getting out. His stories can travel too.

Scout’s Out & AboutThe Scout ReportScout brings the blue ball back to Barry in the Wicklow hills

“Barry looks after the paperwork. I’m more of a paw-on-the-knee sort of fellow.”

A word from Scout · imagined dialogue

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Updated 13 September 2026.