Woman found guilty of allowing sheep to wander has case dismissed

Some might call it a ewe-turn - an 85-year-old sheep farmer who was found guilty of allowing her sheep to wander from commonage in west Cork has had the case dismissed under the Probation Act.

Mary O'Sullivan of Hilltop House in Dreenapappara near Ardgroom in County Cork was asked in February to consider putting up four large warning signs - to be maintained for three years - after her sheep were found wandering on a public road in contravention of a law dating back to 1851.