Court fouls up jarveys’ bid to avoid dung catchers

A HORSE might be poetry in motion, but the motions of a horse did not result in poetic justice for Killarney’s jarveys in the High Court.

Court fouls up jarveys’ bid to avoid dung catchers

What’s good for roses is not necessarily of benefit to more than a million visitors to Killarney National Park each year, the parks service argued. You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. However, when you feed a horse, the outcome is always certain. And that same outcome was the subject of prolonged legal argument since the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) mooted their dung-catcher plan for horses using Muckross park.

Lawyers, who would never dream of looking a gift horse in the mouth, focused instead on the other end to determine a legally binding end product.

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