Kerry farmer offers €1,000 reward for recovery of 15 in-lamb ewes
Swaledale ewe. \David Ruffles A Kerry sheep farmer has offered a €1,000 reward to anyone with information that will lead to the recovery of his 15 in-lamb ewes, which he suspects were stolen last month. In January, Patrick Dwyer put his Swaledale ewes on the Slieve Mish Mountains commonage for four months of grazing before lambing in May. “Just in the last two weeks, I noticed the flock looked a bit light, so I decided to take them down off the commonage in preparation for lambing,” Dwyer told the Irish Farmers Journal. “You always have a few ewes die while on the mountain. This year...