December 2017 is the last month when wild animals in circuses can legally be shown to Irish audiences. Michael Creed, Ireland's Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, has signed regulations ...

MEET Ireland’s loneliest dogs who are looking to get out of rescue kennels and into their fur-ever home. Animal rescue centres around Ireland are bursting with pets who have been abandoned by their ...

From January 2018 the use of wild animals in circuses will be forbidden by Irish law. New regulations have been introduced in the Irish Animal Welfare Act to come in line with modern day animal ...

A temporary control zone is in place as vets investigate the suspected presence of the disease in two cows at a holding near ...

The use of wild animals in circuses in Ireland has been banned, the Department of Agriculture has announced. Last year Dublin City Council brought in a ban and starting from January 1st next year the ...

Only 45 thefts were reported last year, falling from 50 in 2022 — a dramatic drop on the 121 taken in 2020 and 116 in 2021, after Covid struck. Before the pandemic, the figure was around 60. So far ...

The mythology explored goes beyond Celtic mythology to Classical (Greek and Roman) mythology and Egyptian mythology, exploring links between animal myths, from The Táin Bó Cúailgne and Cú Chulainn to ...

It’s amazing working in an animal shelter, but you do have to guard yourself a little otherwise you’d develop a kind of trauma. There are no animals here that don’t deserve love and it’s so sad to see ...

Animal transports were banned in a state surrounding Berlin on Saturday, and the German capital’s two zoos closed as a precaution, after foot and mouth disease was detected in a buffalo herd just ...