July 12th, 2018 Since the introduction of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, the Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has received 70,000 calls to its animal cruelty hotline. According to the organisation’s 2017 annual report, there have been 46 prosecutions under the Act to date, with Read more…
October 5th, 2017 The Government’s plans to increase live animal exports will cause “unnecessary suffering” to our farm animals, a national animal rights organisation has said. Caroline Rowley of Compassion Ireland was speaking after a debate in the Dáil debate on Tuesday in which both the beef industry and animal Read more…
May 6th, 2017 The Green Party and the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have called on the Government to introduce an animal welfare program into primary school education. Both groups believe that this will help reduce the number of cases of cruelty and neglect. In 2016 Read more…