Last weekend, I gave a talk to a national meeting of the ISPCA, reflecting on aspects of animal welfare in Ireland. I moved to Ireland from my home country of Scotland twenty five years ago, so I ...

Ireland’s missing snakes have been blamed on everything from saints to sorcery for centuries— but the real explanation isn’t hidden in an old legend so much as in the island’s history. In popular ...

An Irish donkey sanctuary has launched a pubic appeal for support against what they have called a national donkey welfare crisis. The Donkey Sanctuary Ireland has said that the number of animals ...

Ireland is one of only a few countries in the world that has no snakes. Much of Britain and Ireland’s flora and fauna arrived here after the last ice age. As the glaciers retreated about 10,000 years ...