Shotgun licence refusal appeal

A farmer appealed unsuccessfully against the refusal of a licence to hold a shotgun after a Garda Superintendent said there was an animal cruelty case against the man in the past where 15 harriers that strayed on to his land were wounded and one shot dead.

Superintendent Con Cadogan said a refusal of a firearm licence application was made where the applicant was considered to be not a suitable person to carry a firearm.

Supt Cadogan referred to a Cork District Court case from 2012 when 15 hounds from a harriers club strayed on to the land in 2009 — 15 of the hounds were injured and one was shot dead, the superintendent said.