A farming father and daughter from Inniskeen were on Crimecall last night appealing for information on a distressing sheep kill on their farm last month.
Eamonn and Niamh Monahan rear pedigree Texels and had just moved pregnant ewes to a nursery field just before lambing began. In January, they lost five ewes and nine lambs in the attack. Their most precious ewe, which delivered a single lamb every year, was pregnant with triplets for the first time when it had its hind leg ripped away from its body in the sickening attack
When they appeared on RTÉ's Crimecall programme last night, Eamonn and Niamh said aside from the financial and emotional impact of an attack, the huge fear is that something like this may happen again. As a result, they have shifted some of their focus to ways of preventing sheep kills by dogs not kept under control by their owners in future.
Niamh and Eamonn have already issued a survey to every sheep farmer in Ireland to complete and are working with politicians on changing legislation around dog ownership and the powers available to local dog wardens:
