Odd bird I saw the other day... identify?

Speedwell

Sorry no pics, but I was too busy making friends with the rascal to take one, lol...

I was sitting in my car at the Mace on the N4 at Collooney with my window down, eating a scone, when I was spotted by a black bird that looked exactly like a crow with a slender down-curving black beak. It perched on my rear-view mirror and looked at me first with one black eye and then the other. I laughed and held out a bit of scone, and the bird took it delicately from between my fingers and looked at me again like a cat asking for another treat, so I gave it another bit of scone and watched it eat it between its beak and claw.

I came home and looked at all the Irish bird sites I could find. It wasn't a starling; it had no spots. It wasn't a crow or raven; the beak was too thin. It very closely resembled a chough, but the feet and eyes weren't red. Is there such a thing as a melanistic chough?

Del.Monte

I've never heard of a melanistic Chough but I think almost every species throws up the trait from time to time. Anyway, sounds more like an escaped cage bird such as a Myna - you wouldn't get near a Chough.