Donal Hickey: Do e-collars work — and are they cruel?

The deadline for public consultation on e-collars is February 16

Ciara Cronin, 12, nursing one of the lambs who was badly injured in a savage attack by dogs on their farm at Lower Killeens, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

A photograph in this newspaper, on March 7 last, told a sorry story of dog attacks on sheep.

The image by chief photographer, Dan Linehan, shows 12-year-old Ciara Cronin cradling a lamb which had been a victim of such attacks on her family’s farm at Lower Killeens, near Blarney, County Cork.