{"id":255887,"date":"2026-01-21T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255887\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:19:08","slug":"kerry-dairy-farmer-fined-for-slurry-contamination-of-river-feale-tributary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255887\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry dairy farmer fined for slurry contamination of River Feale tributary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Snowy land, a full tank and poor judgement brought the farmer before the court\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Slurry spreading. Photo: Roger Jones\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/64456ad9-6d3c-4f99-8fb1-6bf68f5c08af.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Slurry spreading. Photo: Roger Jones<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A North Kerry dairy farmer has been fined \u20ac750 at Listowel District Court for allowing slurry to enter a water source connected with the River Feale, and other related charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">John Paul Kelly of Scrahan, Duagh was charged with violating EU regulations, including causing or permitting organic fertiliser to enter a watercourse, applying organic fertiliser to snow-covered land, applying organic fertiliser to a farm passageway, and applying it during a prohibited period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snowy land, a full tank and poor judgement brought the farmer before the court Slurry spreading. Photo: Roger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23275,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-255887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-anna-zacharies","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}