Court quashes some animal welfare convictions against Dept of Agriculture official 

Department of Agriculture official had allowed the carcass of an animal, namely a cow, to be on land to which a dog may have access

Last June, the official was convicted before Sligo District Court of animal neglect and animal welfare breaches, and over his failure to have his animals tested for TB and Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) since 2016.

Certain convictions and sentences imposed on an a Department of Agriculture official who admitted having dead and injured animals on his lands have been set aside by the High Court.

The Minister for Agriculture sought the orders quashing some, but not all, of the convictions imposed earlier this year on Bernard otherwise Brian Kilgariff, who as a senior official with the Department of Agriculture had investigated animal welfare issues.