Dublin councils have seized 118 horses on public lands this year
Last year in South Dublin alone, 467 horses were seized and 422 euthanised. Just 12 were rehomed and 22 were retrained.
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Last year in South Dublin alone, 467 horses were seized and 422 euthanised. Just 12 were rehomed and 22 were retrained.
An equine programme set up by Childvision is now being extended to children from outside its service.
More than 2,400 horses have been seized in the first half of this year.
Pauline Doyle said her offer to rehome the horses was ignored.
The animals had been put into a pound after being released from a field in Dungarvan.
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The ISPCA received 1,524 calls over the whole of 2012 – and has taken 1,372 calls so far this year.
Minister Simon Coveney also wants tighter controls on the movement of horses.
The charity’s equine units are now full beyond capacity due to a 33 per cent increase in calls which relate to horses in distress.
However, 99 per cent of the Food Safety Authority’s tests continue to show no horse DNA at or above the level of 1 per cent.
Meanwhile, meat broker Martin McAdam said he was still “reeling” from the news that traces of horse were found in products he traded.
The company also said it supplied 60 tonnes of beef to Silvercrest foods, contrary to reports that it had supplied 170 tonnes.
Rangeland Foods has temporarily shut down production after it found the equine traces in an ingredient it received from Poland.
The ISPCA responded to over 1,500 calls related to neglect or abuse of equine animals in 2012.
The Tipperary jockey has been cut from Team Ireland days after the disqualification of his horse from an event in Germany.
Laboratory tests have confirmed a contagious equine metritis infection (CEM) in a non-thoroughbred stallion at a premises in Co Galway.
Irish Horse Welfare Trust carrying out pilot programme in Dunsink area of Dublin to halt situation where foals being born on dump.