CCTV footage being examined to try and trace man who dumped 17 kittens

Gardaí are studying CCTV footage in a bid to identify a man who dumped a box containing 17 kittens outside a Co Donegal butcher shop in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The cardboard box containing the tiny kittens was left outside the butcher shop in Killybegs at 5am.

A local postwoman came upon the box during her morning delivery rounds and was left astonished by her find.