Animal carcasses dumped near golf course
Tralee, Kerry, IR (UK)Incident Date: Monday, Sep 30, 2002
Disposition: Acquitted
Person of Interest: John O'Sullivan
A Tralee farmer who left scores of rotting carcasses of dead animals unburied just 200 yards from Tralee Golf Club, has walked free from court without having to pay a penny for his crimes.
John O'Sullivan from Barrow West was responsible for one of the worst cases of animal cruelty ever discovered in Kerry, a court heard four years ago. Gardaí and cruelty to animals inspectors found cattle lying half dead on the ground, starving to death with their hip bones and ribs protruding. Other cattle on his farm were forced to live in appalling conditions and stood in two feet of slurry that they also drank.
Inspector Harry McDaid told the court in 2002 that what he saw was one of the worst cases of cruelty to animals he had ever witnessed. "Live cattle were walking over dead ones," he said. On March 7, 2006, John O'Sullivan won his appeal in the Circuit Criminal Court and had the €4,300 fines imposed on him in the District Court wiped out. Judge Carroll Moran accepted that Mr O'Sullivan had got his affairs in order and the defendant was given the benefit of the Probation Act. Since the gardaí first brought the case to court in October 2002, Mr O'Sullivan's farm has been visited on seven occasions by Inspector McDaid. The Circuit Court in Tralee heard this week that Inspector McDaid and the gardaí are now satisfied that no further cruelty to animals is taking place at Mr O'Sullivan's farm in Barrow West.
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