Man may lose dogs due to excessive barking

A man has been warned he must keep his dogs under control or risk losing them after a complaint by a neighbour of “excessive barking”.

Thomas O’Brien, aged 57, of 47 Ogham Rian, Ballinorig, Tralee, Co Kerry, was ordered to keep his dogs muzzled and under control.

His next-door neighbour David Reidy, who brought the civil proceedings of a nuisance caused by barking, was directed by Judge James O’Connor “to monitor and take recordings of any barking at night”.