It is the third such case in an Irish coroner's court in seven days.

Dead calves were found at a farm in Blarney where there were other cattle without access to food or water and today a farmer was given a suspended six-month jail term for animal cruelty.

A financial hole of debt of over €22m, out of which one of the biggest pig farmers in the country would never escape, was presented by the defence as a background factor to the case which saw him jailed yesterday for 18 months for animal cruelty.

Greed was behind a fraud by one of Ireland’s biggest cattle exporters which saw diseased cattle delivered to Morocco.

SHANAGARRY ICA have taken to the small screen, delighted to be one of the local groups invited to take part in Rachel Allen’s Easy Meals television series.