Judge tells Clare farmer to remove sheep from brother's field or face jail

A judge has told a north Clare farmer that if he hasn’t removed by tomorrow 14 ewes and their lambs from a one and a half acre field owned by his brother, he will be sending him to jail.

Judge tells Clare farmer to remove sheep from brother's field or face jail

A judge has told a north Clare farmer that if he hasn’t removed by tomorrow 14 ewes and their lambs from a one and a half acre field owned by his brother, he will be sending him to jail.

At Ennis District Court, Judge Patrick Durcan told the 51-year-old Co Clare farmer in relation to the sheep, “I don’t care where they go - if they are not gone, you are going to jail".

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