{"id":356910,"date":"2026-03-20T23:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356910\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:37:07","slug":"man-arrested-as-part-of-investigation-into-monaghan-cockfighting-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356910\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested as part of investigation into Monaghan cockfighting \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\/\">Garda\u00ed<\/a> have arrested a man aged in his 70s in relation to an investigation into cockfighting in Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/monaghan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/monaghan\/\">Monaghan<\/a> almost two years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cockfighting is an illegal blood sport in which roosters are made to fight each other, often to the death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Organisers breed roosters specifically for aggression to make them more effective in the fights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In July 2024 garda\u00ed received a tip-off about an organised cockfight in Emyvale, Co Monaghan. A subsequent raid by garda\u00ed and animal welfare experts from the Department of Agriculture uncovered 15 dead roosters. Another 70 live roosters were seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A large number of people fled the scene upon the arrival of garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/2024\/07\/29\/gardai-dismantle-illegal-cock-fighting-ring-in-co-monaghan\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garda\u00ed dismantle illegal cockfighting ring in Co MonaghanOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Friday garda\u00ed said they arrested a man aged in his 70s. He was charged and released to appear before Monaghan District Court \u201cat a future date\u201d, the Garda Press Office said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have arrested a man aged in his 70s in relation to an investigation into cockfighting in Co&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,61,60,3773,43],"class_list":["post-356910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-monaghan","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356910","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=356910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}