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The Greyhound Welfare Bill and Dog Breeding Establishment Bill, among the first bills signed into law by President Michael D Higgins, will significantly improve animal welfare and protection.

Councillor Andrew McGuinness has called on Minister Phil Hogan to speed up the legislation on puppy farms in Ireland and he criticised the Government’s failure to implement the legislation which was passed by the Oireachtas last year.

Five animals, including a calf, died and were scavenged on a Mullingar farm when their 25-year-old owner’s financial pressures became too much for him.

The Galway Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have been receiving on average two calls a day regarding abandoned, starving, and neglected horses throughout the county.

In a week where a local man was jailed for cruelty to animals, the Carlow Kilkenny Dog Shelter was presented with yet another case of horrifying animal cruelty.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has welcomed the 23 month jail sentence handed down to a Kilkenny farmer for animal cruelty this week.

The Kilkenny Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is holding a Voices for Animals concert at the Springhill Court Hotel, Waterford Road, Kilkenny on tonight Friday February 5.

The dog badly wounded in a case of animal cruelty in Carlow last September is to be put down.

A man has appeared before Mullingar District Court facing a number of charges relating to the care of animals in Mullingar.

Judge Mary Devins gave gardaí liberty to re-enter charges against a Brickens man who has failed to carry out the directions of the court after being convicted of animal cruelty.