'Unspeakable cruelty': Man jailed for shooting horses and dog

Seven horses and a farm dog were shot dead by a man with a grudge against his uncle in what the sentencing judge described as “unspeakable cruelty” carried out “without mercy and without any justification whatsoever”.

Tom O’Connor, aged 32, of Clonfert, Newmarket, Co Cork, was jailed for 18 months for the crimes.

Detective Sergeant Hugh Twomey testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that, on September 9, 2017, gardaí were approached in the early hours of the morning about the discharge of a firearm in a farmyard.