THE Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports that a Limerick man was convicted and fined in Kilmallock District Court for causing unnecessary suffering to dogs, and having chained, unburied carcasses of two adult dogs and one puppy on his property. Defendant Seamus Looby of Raheen, Garryspillane, Co. Limerick, pleaded guilty on September 18th 2018 to the charges, and received a fine of €1,150. Judge Marion O’Leary also ordered him to pay an additional €1,000 to the ISPCA toward the costs of the investigation. Judge O’Leary restricted Mr Looby from keeping dogs for 18 months under section 58 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013.

ISPCA Animal Welfare Inspectors seized 37 dogs from Looby’s farm on May 16th 2017 after they were alerted to the condition of the dogs by a veterinary inspector for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.