'Get on with your life': Clare farmer avoids jail after removing sheep from brother's land, but must remove dead calf

A north Clare farmer today escaped jail after a judge heard that he had complied with a 24-hour ultimatum that all sheep be removed from the farmer’s brother’s land.

At Gort District Court today, a Veterinary Inspector with the Dept of Agriculture, Mary Bourke told Judge Patrick Durcan that following an inspection of the lands this morning, no sheep or lambs were to be found on the lands.