Badgers

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<p>Jeremy Clarkson outside The Squat Shop, on his farm, Diddly Squat, near Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds. File picture: Blackball Media</p>

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'We've gone down with TB' — Jeremy Clarkson confirms outbreak at farm

Bovine TB found on Diddly Squat Farm

<p>World Animal Road Accident Awareness Day is on Thursday, October 10</p>

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Donal Hickey: Huge numbers of animals killed on roads every day

<p>Badger sow and cubs. Gardaí were recently alerted to what is believed to be a badger baiting incident in Croagh village in Limerick. A Garda statement read that on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Gardaí arrived at the scene and observed two large holes had been intentionally dug in the ground. This is believed to be a practice known as 'badger baiting' — when badgers, which are a protected species in Ireland, are dug out of their setts and captured by people to be used to fight with dogs."</p>

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Wildlife crime is a real crime and a serious problem

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Video: Garden scraps — hedgehogs stand their ground

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Anja Murray: Isn't it time we stopped killing badgers?

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Our most common wild animal? Here's what the camera traps tell us

Cork TB rates hit more than double the national average

The bacterium which causes bovine TB spreads from cattle to badgers and badgers to cattle. The Department wants to expand badger vaccination

Wed, 29 Dec, 2021

Pat Kenny and developers in planning battle over badger family

Pat and Kathy Kenny and over 30 other households in Dalkey were successful in opposing a previous application by Bartra for a nursing home on the same site.

Mon, 17 May, 2021

How badgers will be vaccinated as part of bovine TB eradication programme

The Department of Agriculture has explained how the country’s badgers will be vaccinated, as part of the bovine TB eradication programme.

Thu, 25 Jan, 2018

Badger vaccination now in TB eradication

Vaccination of badgers has become an integral part of the bovine TB eradication programme.

Thu, 18 Jan, 2018

Puffins hit in seabird ‘wreck’

DID three months of fierce winter storms affect our wildlife? Millions of trees were felled and swathes of farmland inundated.

Mon, 17 Mar, 2014

Badgers

'We've gone down with TB' — Jeremy Clarkson confirms outbreak at farm

Donal Hickey: Huge numbers of animals killed on roads every day

Wildlife crime is a real crime and a serious problem

Video: Garden scraps — hedgehogs stand their ground

Anja Murray: Isn't it time we stopped killing badgers?

Our most common wild animal? Here's what the camera traps tell us

Cork TB rates hit more than double the national average

Pat Kenny and developers in planning battle over badger family

How badgers will be vaccinated as part of bovine TB eradication programme

Badger vaccination now in TB eradication

Puffins hit in seabird ‘wreck’

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Mick Clifford

Badgers

'We've gone down with TB' — Jeremy Clarkson confirms outbreak at farm

Donal Hickey: Huge numbers of animals killed on roads every day

Wildlife crime is a real crime and a serious problem

Video: Garden scraps — hedgehogs stand their ground

Anja Murray: Isn't it time we stopped killing badgers?

Our most common wild animal? Here's what the camera traps tell us

Cork TB rates hit more than double the national average

Pat Kenny and developers in planning battle over badger family

How badgers will be vaccinated as part of bovine TB eradication programme

Badger vaccination now in TB eradication

Puffins hit in seabird ‘wreck’

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Mick Clifford

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