CAB to sell foot-and-mouth culprit’s house

JOHN WALSH, the man who brought foot-and-mouth disease to Ireland, is to have his house compulsorily sold by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) and is also facing a new set of smuggling charges in Scotland.

The Dunlavin-born farmer, with a residence at Clareen, Birr, Co Offaly, had received a suspended sentence for income tax fraud in May of last year, on foot of making a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners for unpaid taxes and VAT fraud.

According to RTE news, that sum is believed to have been close to €750,000.