Karen Walsh: Animal Health and Welfare Act

Recent cases demonstrate that the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 is being enforced and taken very seriously by the courts.
Karen Walsh: Animal Health and Welfare Act

Recently, Co Cork pig farmer Rory O’Brien was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Sean Ó Donnabhain in Cork Circuit Court, on animal welfare grounds.

The case attracted much media interest. The farmer, from Killicane, Mitchelstown, pleaded guilty to five charges of animal cruelty.

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