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Lifetime Animal Ownership Ban For Carlow Woman

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Lifetime animal ownership ban on Carlow woman.

At Carlow District Court (16th July 2025), Seeta O’Neill of Maple Court, Phelimstown, Tullow, Co. Carlow was sentenced to five months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months. A lifetime animal ownership ban was imposed and O’Neill gave an undertaking in court that, in her lifetime, there would be no animals on her premises.

The case was previously before Judge Geraldine Carthy on 3rd April last when the defendant admitted eight charges under sections 12, 13 and 19 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (AHWA).

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Carlow Man Loses Animal Cruelty Conviction Appeal

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At a March sitting of Carlow Court of Appeals, Judge Cormac Quinn, affirmed the sentence imposed on Nigel O’ Hara of Fourteen Acres, Kilcarrig, Bagnalstown, Co. Carlow who was convicted of animal cruelty in February 2024.

O’Hara had appealed the severity of the sentence imposed by Judge Geraldine Carthy at that time which included a four-month custodial sentence, a lifetime disqualification from keeping dogs, and a €2,000 fine.

In addition, it was ordered that O’Hara pay €3,791.78 in costs for the Irish Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) costs and €3,690 in ministerial prosecutions costs.

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