Attack on animal warden ‘sickening’

GARDAÍ have described as ‘sickening’ and ‘deplorable’ a daylight attack in which a public official was dragged from his van and hospitalised due to injuries sustained in an assault.

Attack on animal warden ‘sickening’

Yesterday, Clare’s Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) warden Frank Coote vowed to carry on his job after being the victim of what he called a “senseless attack”, in the course of his work.

A popular figure in Co Clare, the Ennis man was driven off the road last Thursday and dragged out of his van by a lone man in his late 30s, who then assaulted him.

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