{"id":374295,"date":"2026-03-31T07:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374295\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:19:10","slug":"items-linked-to-cock-fighting-seized-in-tipperary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374295\/","title":{"rendered":"Items linked to cock fighting seized in Tipperary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda\u00ed have seized a number of items linked to cock fighting following a search in Tipperary town.<\/p>\n<p>Bird cages, medication, illegal substances and a number of gaffs were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>A gaff is a type of blade that is attached to a rooster&#8217;s leg before a fight.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-agency operation involved Tipperary County Council, the National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals, the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An Garda Siochana Tipperary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0024244a-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe items were seized following a search in Tipperary town<\/p>\n<p>No animals were recovered at the premises and garda\u00ed say no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>It added that it is liaising with the Department of Agriculture on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda\u00ed have seized a number of items linked to cock fighting following a search in Tipperary town. Bird&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-374295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374295","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=374295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}