By-laws planned to combat ‘epidemic of out-of-control horses’

PLANS are being made for by-laws to combat an “epidemic of out-of-control horses” which is making many householders’ lives “a misery” in parts of Cork City.

A meeting of the Cork City Joint Policing Committee (JPC) heard horses had become so cheap in the past 18 months their numbers had exploded in the city and suburbs. Many were owned by younger teenagers who didn’t control them properly, with the result many were running wild.

The scale of the problem became apparent when Supt Tom Myers, who is in charge of policing in the Mayfield Garda district, said he had impounded more than 50 horses so far this year. He said they were mainly seized from the Banduff, Spring Lane and Ballyvolane areas and were sent to an official pound in Glenville.