The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, has criticised French handlers who were filmed allegedly abusing Irish cattle in Cherbourg.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is “stretched to breaking point” due to the volume of animal cruelty reports it is receiving.

A report from the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has revealed that they got more than 16,000 calls to their National Animal Cruelty Helpline last year.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) seized 1,100 animals following calls to its cruelty helpline last year, according to its annual report.

An animal charity has released a shocking video and photographs of a woman, violently kicking a dog to highlight the aftermath of cruelty they deal with, all too frequently.

Many cases of animal cruelty, including domestic pets, were due to owners’ ignorance, it has been claimed.

Fewer dogs are being euthanised, but the country still has to deal with its huge canine overpopulation problem, according to a national animal welfare organisation.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has been forced to put down a buzzard that was found shot and badly injured in County Westmeath.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has launched a nationwide campaign to discourage tail docking after it became an offence under recent legislation.

Don’t worry, he's alright now.

The Cork family of four-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier ’Irek’ were devastated when he went missing last week, and after five days of looking they had almost given up hope.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has warned pet owners to take especial care of their animals this Halloween as they may be frightened by the noise of fireworks.

Animal welfare campaigners have warned of a growing problem of horses being abandoned on public and private property and left to fend for themselves.

For people who love animals but don’t want the commitment involved in having a full-time pet, fostering can be a win-win option, writes Georgina O’Halloran.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is appealing for information after a pair of puppies was left to die at the side of a road.

The number of abandoned and stray horses slaughtered by local authorities increased by over one third last year to more than 2,100 animals.

RELEASING a basket of beautiful white doves symbolises the love, peace and permanence of a couple’s union and their heartfelt wedding vows — but the picturesque ritual has a secret underbelly of exploitation and cruelty. Because, once released in a spectacular cloud of white feathers, some of these birds don’t, as expected, fly straight back to their owners.

The country’s main farming organisation has called on the Government to provide financial assistance to horse owners to tackle the growing problem of unwanted horses.

Animal welfare groups have urged compulsory microchipping to protect dogs, writes Georgina O’Halloran

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is calling for a complete ban on the practice of sulky road racing - a tradition of racing young horses and ponies on roads and other rough terrrain.

Travellers videoed racing ponies through traffic on a busy main road in Co Cork are likely to be prosecuted, Garda sources have said.

Gardaí in Cork are understood to be ready to make further arrests in relation to a serious incident which occurred on the main Cork to Mallow road last Saturday.

MANY horses, ponies, donkeys and foals will starve and die this winter due to neglect, according to the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA).

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) is appealing to the public to help it look after abandoned and starving horses and ponies this Christmas.

HORSE SPORT IRELAND is again putting up a prizefund of €75,500 for its Irish Sport Horse Studbook Show Jumping Series.

SEVEN horses surrendered yesterday under Cork city’s first “horse amnesty” will probably be put down.

THE first nations cup of the season and Robert Splaine is on a scouting mission.

SHOW jumper Denis Lynch has made progress in resolving his difference with Irish show jumping team manager Robert Splaine and Horse Sport Ireland (HSI) following a meeting on Monday.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is warning that the practice of badger-baiting is on the rise.

GARDAÍ have described as ‘sickening’ and ‘deplorable’ a daylight attack in which a public official was dragged from his van and hospitalised due to injuries sustained in an assault.

A WORKING group has been set up to devise an apt industry response to a recently published report on horse welfare by University College Dublin.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has reported a massive jump in calls to its helpline.

FOUR horses starved to death on an abandoned golf course near Cork city.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has today called on pet owners to be particularly vigilant of their animals during the current cold snap.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has appealed to people not to give puppies as Christmas gifts this year.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is urging people to bring their pets indoors early tonight.

A JUDGE, shocked by horrific images of livestock cruelty, was yesterday asked to impose a lifetime ban on a farmer from herding animals.

DRIVERS on the road through Kilmacanogue thought they were going bananas.

PEOPLE in north Kerry are protesting about delays in replacing a bridge which collapsed a year ago under the weight of a truck carrying 250 pigs.