{"id":542794,"date":"2026-07-10T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542794\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:00:08","slug":"cattle-euthanised-on-farm-in-west-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542794\/","title":{"rendered":"Cattle euthanised on farm in west of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of cattle have been euthanised on a farm in the west of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the cattle were destroyed on animal welfare grounds by order of the Department of Agriculture on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Videos circulating widely on social media purport to show cattle lined up in a crush before being euthanised and dead animals in a pen with live animals.<\/p>\n<p>The footage also shows a tractor moving a carcase across a pen and carcases being loaded into a knackery lorry.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how many cattle were euthanised or how they were euthanised. <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Agriculture has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of cattle have been euthanised on a farm in the west of Ireland. It is understood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[164961,54867,230433,7663,49786,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-542794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-amy-forde","tag-animal-welfare","tag-carcase","tag-cattle","tag-department-of-agriculture","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542794","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=542794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}