Farmer now a pariah over animal cruelty as he faces jail

A farmer has become a ‘pariah’ in his locality after he pleaded guilty to ‘one of the worst’ cases of animal cruelty in which hundreds of calves were found dead on his land, a court has heard. Séamus Looby, 68, Raheen, Garryspillane, Co. Limerick, pleaded guilty to 173 offences after large numbers of rotting calves […]