Man blamed for foot-and-mouth loses home

The Criminal Assets Bureau has sold a house and 150 acres of land belonging to the man said to have brought foot-and-mouth disease to Ireland two years ago when he smuggled infected sheep into the country.

Longford House, a period property at Clareen, Co Offaly, was the home of livestock dealer John Walsh, who was jailed for illegally importing animals into Ireland in 2001.