{"id":436499,"date":"2026-05-07T07:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436499\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:37:09","slug":"farmer-becomes-a-pariah-locally-after-pleading-guilty-to-173-offences-in-one-of-the-worst-cases-of-animal-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436499\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer becomes a \u2018pariah\u2019 locally after pleading guilty to 173 offences in \u2018one of the worst cases of animal neglect\u2019"},"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\">Calves left to starve and rot on Seamus Looby\u2019s property<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Seamus Looby\u2019s barrister said he was ashamed and remorseful\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Seamus Looby.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)\">Seamus Looby\u2019s barrister said he was ashamed and remorseful<\/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 Co Limerick farmer has become a \u201cpariah\u201d in his local community after he pleaded guilty to \u201cone of the worst\u201d cases of animal cruelty, a court has heard.<\/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)\">Seamus Looby (68), of Raheen, Garry\u00adspillane, pleaded guilty to 173 offences, after large numbers of rotting calves were found across 100 acres of his lands in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calves left to starve and rot on Seamus Looby\u2019s property Seamus Looby\u2019s barrister said he was ashamed and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26915,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-436499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-farming-courts","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436499","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=436499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}