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A MAN HAS been hospitalised after he was injured by a rampaging cow in Co Clare this morning.
The incident happened at around 10.15 am at Ennis Mart on the outskirts of the town.
It’s understood that the animal was being moved from a truck in loading and unloading area at the rear of the mart facility when it broke free and ran off.
A man, understood to have been working in the area at the time, attempted to prevent the cow from leaving the mart complex however he was knocked down by the animal and injured.
The man suffered head injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening. He was taken by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick for treatment.
After exiting the mart complex, the cow then ran in the direction of Ennis town centre where it struck at least one vehicle causing minor damage. The cow continued towards Ennis Cathedral and O’Connell Street but turned instead onto Friar’s Walk and ran in the direction of Dunnes Stores.
There, a number of people from Ennis Mart caught up with and surrounded the animal before managing to get it into a trailer.
Sergeant Gary Stack of Ennis Garda station confirmed:
The animal made its way all the way to Dunnes Stores where it was brought to a halt at Park Avenue where a couple of men from Clare Marts got the animal into a trailer. The man who was injured was taken to hospital but he’s injuries aren’t life-threatening.
In May 2017, three people were injured when an animal became agitated and broke loose from a pen in the cattle loading and off-loading area at Ennis Mart. The three men, including one in his 70s, were rushed to hospital after the incident.
In 2011, an agitated cow knocked down a garda and three members of the public after escaping from Ennis Mart.
It later transpired that the cow had lost a calf earlier and that this may have prompted the rampage.
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Ennis Mart need to beef up their security.
@James Wallace: sounds like a c0ck and bull story to me… Adults insert the U…
A very Mooving story!
Maybe the cow was Fresian and was going to Dunnes to look for a Jersey
@Larry Betts:
How to make a bull sweat….
Give him a tight jersey.. ha ha
@Larry Betts: Haha gud 1, all likelihood twas probably a limousin they’re nuts
*Sees headline about rampaging cow*
*Goes straight to comments*
They need a backstop
@Euro is Dead: ha ha ha brilliant
Dunng stores.
@Ananya Sharma: with a reputation at steak
@Ananya Sharma: love it
Ennis marts would want to get there livestock transfers sorted. There’s a lot at steak.
Poor animal, frightened making a break for freedom. Probably thirsty in this hot humid weather. Doesn’t help either to be herded directly from truck being walloped with a stick. Just saying……
Did it own a creche ?
she lost her calf or it sold at market?
Ah come on yous are milking this one
It was a Bull…not a cow.
@Joe Duffy: that’s bollocks
So many Xmas cracker joke writers, please someone make them stop!
@Alan Currie: yeah we’re really milking it at this stage. But you’re lucky, I can’t think of an udder one.
She’s not mad ….shes angry!
Holy cow!
—–A load of bull !
It’s sad to see a sentient animal traumatized like this, and more sad to see ‘intelligent’ people make jokes about animal distress. Slaughtering animals in a world where vegetarianism is a cheaper option to ‘abatoir produced food’ is both intrinsically immoral and unneccessary. Our food should not include ‘Fear’ as part of its production.
Mad cow disease again stay in doors please
This article read like Ennis’s answer to ulysses
After receiving treatment at the scene,the cow is now in a come for the bull condition
Would you veel it
In two minds whether I would capture that runaway cow,and take it home and have it butchered and live off free meat from the freezer for the year. But what if I was caught? Yeah,I wouldn’t risk it for a brisket
Cows With Guns!
I’ve say that cow herd all those jokes before, then again that was probably a moody cow. That poor farmer will have been milked dry.
@wacker macker: would you heifer do one
Is that him in the pic he looks mean.
Was she delivering fresh milk to Dunnes
@pat seery: Maybe you’re right. It says she had already lost a calf,so maybe she was Avonmore
Im no ones meal or slave :
Im out of here !!!!
A farmer goes out to check on his livestock after a freak tornado hits his land. There in one of the trees, hanging for dear life from the branches is one of his Fresian cows. The farmer looks at the scene before him, scratches his head in bewilderment and says:
“This Cow in Tree is a joke!”
I’m taking the kids and going. F*^k this godforsaken kip!!!
@Nehppo McG:
Well that escalated quickly, didn’t it?
A distressed animal isn’t any reason for making smug and stupid comments , more humane to ask why was the animal so upset , what exactly happened?
How is this Moos??
@Sean Walsh: That’s a mad cow story,Ted
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