Livestock aid charity Bóthar has recorded a €1.3m deficit for 2012 and has been “in crisis” for the past five years, according to its new chief executive.

BÓTHAR, the Limerick-based charity which sends livestock every year to more than 5,000 families in 35 developing countries, has named second-in-command, David Moloney, as the organisation’s new chief executive.

THE founder of one of Ireland’s most successful charities, livestock aid organisation Bóthar, has announced his retirement as chief exec-utive after 20 years in the post.

A NEW world record was achieved in Limerick at the weekend when thousands of Irish and Welsh rugby fans lined out to support the third world charity Bóthar.

Bóthar, the international development agency that specialises in the use of livestock, has announced that it has received a record-breaking’ response to its ‘Spring Calf Appeal’ for the donation of heifer calves to its Shelton Abbey prisoner rehabilitation project.

BÓTHAR, the international development agency that specialises in the use of livestock, has launched an unusual appeal to farmers.

MORE than 320 struggling Ugandan families are set to benefit from presents of goats cared for by Irish prisoners.

IRISH people have sent more than half a million tree saplings to Africa as part of a joint initiative launched last October.

MORE than 400 goats were yesterday flown from Shannon to Tanzania, where each of the animals will be given to a family as part of the Bóthar helping programme.

STUNG, not once but seven times, Philip McCabe still wants to have another go at getting bees swarm all over his body to get into the Guinness Book of Records.

LIMERICK-based charity Bothar has lined up a fund raising event which could buzz its way into the Guinness Book of Records.

ONE of the country’s oldest fairs is to develop international links with poorer countries, using its long association with goats.