Irish inmates rearing cows for needy in war-torn countries

Irish charity Bóthar, which has been shipping livestock to developing countries for 25 years, now has the help of inmates of Shelton Abbey, Ireland’s open prison.

“I was eating my breakfast one morning and it was on the back of a cornflakes box that I saw their [Bóthar’s] annual appeal,” says Tom Gregan, the farm manager at Shelton Abbey.

“We have a patch of land here in Shelton Abbey, grassland and it was kind of going to waste and I was wondering was there anything we could do in conjunction with Bóthar, so I just wrote a letter. That would have been in 2008.”