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Increased TB testing on culled deer has been called for in Co. Wicklow – to ascertain the true extent of the problem – by the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA). The organisation’s rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock made the call following an ICSA meeting with officials from Coillte and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) which took …
Article from Michael Keaveney 20th February 2018 explaining that, according to Manor Kilbride Deer Management Project (MKDMP) chair Sean Eustace, Recreational hunting is inadequate as a deer conservation measure and as a method to control the serious economic damage to grassland, crops and woodlands by wild deer. Read the article here
We were delighted to be recently featured in the Irish Farmers Journal. Thanks to Paul Mooney for giving us a great write up. Department’s sniper in new wildlife venture
The Irish Farmers Journal ran a piece in February 2017 on the problems that a large wild deer population can cause to farmers throughout the country. Deer Plague affecting farmers in Kerry and Tipperary
Mr. James O’Keeffe DAFF Superintending Veterinary Inspector’s Report on the National Strategy of Eradication of Tubercolosis in Cattle in Ireland. View the report here