N.Ireland
Co Armagh farmer fined £1,000 for 'grossly' polluting waterway
A Co. Armagh farmer has been fined £1,000 for water pollution offences after it was found that a waterway was...
Courts
N.Ireland
Farmer receives 3-month suspended sentence on animal welfare charges
A farmer in Northern Ireland has been handed a three-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, on several animal welfare...
Rural Life
Woman fined over €3,500 for welfare offences to pigs and sheep
A woman from Co. Louth has been fined €3,710 after she was convicted of a range of offences for failing to have...
N.Ireland
Two months in prison for farmer who failed to dispose of carcasses
An Enniskillen farmer has received two months imprisonment for causing unnecessary suffering to cattle and failure to dispose of animal carcasses....
Agri-Business
Meath wholesaler fined €16,000 for labelling Polish and Lithuanian beef as Irish
A Co.Meath meat wholesaler has been found guilty of falsely declaring beef as being of Irish origin. The Food Safety Authority...
Agri-Business
Department of Agriculture currently embroiled in 22 legal cases
The Department of Agriculture is currently embroiled in some 22 legal cases, according to latest figures released by the Minister for...
Agri-Business
Supreme Court backs farmer and halts State compulsory purchase order
Kildare farmer Thomas Reid has won a lengthy legal battle with the IDA over a compulsory purchase of his family’s land....
N.Ireland
Farmer found guilty of animal cruelty but avoids jail
A Co. Antrim farmer has been disqualified from keeping animals for five years after he was convicted of three charges of...
N.Ireland
Tyrone farmer fined for moving a sheep unfit for journey
A Northern Ireland farmer has been fined £500 by Craigavon Magistrates’ Court for transporting a sheep that was not fit for the...
N.Ireland
Farmer fined for causing unnecessary suffering to cow
A Co. Antrim farmer has been fined £4,000 in court for causing unnecessary suffering to a bovine animal and for transporting the animal...
Rural Life
Donegal woman prosecuted after abandoning dog
A Donegal woman was recently prosecuted after she abandoned her dog and was taken to court by the ISPCA. Vet...
Pig/Poultry
Pig farmer jailed for 18 months on animal welfare grounds
Cork pig farmer Rory O’Brien was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday (Thursday) on animal welfare grounds. The farmer...
Rural Life
Longford pig farmer jailed and fined €3,000 for slurry 'timebomb'
A pig farmer was jailed for 10 weeks and fined €3,000, after a judge labelled him ‘an absolute disgrace’ over...
N.Ireland
Farmer convicted for transporting injured animal to factory
A Tyrone farmer was fined in recent weeks after he was convicted of transporting an animal with a broken leg....
Agri-Business
Department of Agriculture Investigations Unit has 90% success rate in court
The Department of Agriculture’s investigations division has a success rate in court of 90%, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture...