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Have Your Say on Ireland’s Animal Welfare Strategy 2026 – 2030
Deadline: 2 January 2026. Have your say on the 2026 – 2030 Animal Welfare Strategy. Submissions can be made by email. Find out how to make a submission
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Surgical Artificial Insemination in Greyhounds – Consultation Results
Press Release: DAFM, 20 November 2025 The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine held a public consultation. The public consultation opened on 18 June 2024 and closed on 26 July 2024. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine would like to thank everyone who responded to this consultation. Below is a summary of…
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EU Council and Parliament reach a provisional deal to improve the welfare and traceability of cats and dogs across Europe
The agreement aims to improve the welfare of cats and dogs that are kept by breeders, selling establishments and shelters, while also improving consumer protection, ensuring fair competition and fighting illegal trade.
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Dog Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2025
Bill entitled an Act to provide for animal welfare considerations in the operation of dog breeding establishments, including but not limited to a cap on the number of breeding bitches, the age of bitches allowed to breed, the age of pups when removed from their mothers, a staff-to-bitch ratio, and to prohibit the use of…
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Ministers Browne and O’Sullivan announce package of €700,000 to coordinate response at Lady’s Island Lake
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage James Browne, TD and Minister for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity Christopher O’Sullivan TD today visited Wexford’s Lady’s Island Lake and announced €700,000 in funding to Wexford County Council for their coordinating role in restoring the ecological condition of the lake. Ministers Browne and O’Sullivan met with officials from…
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Major blow to billion-euro glass eel trafficking networks
Europol: Organised crime at the heart of trafficking – The latest iteration of Operation LAKE, which ran from October 2024 to June 2025, uncovered large-scale trafficking networks and disrupted the flow of live eels destined for illegal farms in Asia.
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Inland Fisheries Ireland seize 1,000 illegally-harvested wild oysters in Kerry
Inland Fisheries Officers prevent significant environmental loss and return seized live native oysters to the sea.
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Have Your Say: Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan
Free Events: This September and October, the NPWS is hosting Community Conversations across the country—and online—to hear directly from people, communities, and stakeholders.