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DESPITE THE HEAVY rain that hit the entire country yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people turned up to the events being held as part of Culture Night.
About 900 venues welcomed visitors – some on a one-off basis – for free tours, plays, concerts, exhibitions and open houses.
Aoibhín Kinsella, aged six months, had her first taste of Culture Night in Dublin, visiting the Little Museum, the Royal Irish Academy, Kevin Sharkey’s exhibition, St Anne’s Anglican Church and a shopping trip in Mothercare!
Our own reporter Christina Finn took herself to Leinster House for the night tours. The highlight? This portrait of former taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
The rain poured in Dublin from early evening but spirits weren’t dampened, even for those dancing outdoors.
Here are Alisha Hawkins and Tadgh Woods, both 8 years old from Tallaght, on Barnardo Square.
We think our favourite moment of the night though happened in Temple Bar where the Seattle Police Pipes and Drums bad were playing.
A passer-by asked for a go at the bagpipes and surprised everybody with an impromptu performance of the Star Wars theme tune.
What did you get up to?
I really hope whoever dumped the pups like that is found and prosecuted. One good thing in all this is that they’ll have a far better life than the one their poor mother is doubtless having! I really don’t understand how people can be so cruel.
Well done to their rescuers & all the shame & bad karma in the world on those who dumped the poor things.
Prosecution is no use, do the same to whoever did this and then they will know what its like. Tie them up in a bag and dump them into a sewer.
I agree deeply i wana put suffocate them
Well they wont be caught so there
..I can’t even read the story, the headline upsets me too much!
..simply an evil & ruthless individual who did this. I wish nothing but a slow agonising death whilst screaming for this individual..
This really sickens me. Dirtbags. Pretty much impossible to ever find the perpetrator but well done to the member of the public for noticing them and the two Gardai for rescuing and caring for them!
I know that millions of fertilizer bags are delivered each year but is there a batch number or other means of tracking down the culprit?
Riiiiight serial number on each bag?. You have as much luck tracing bag of crisps on the road
Call in Interpol !
This is f*cking infuriating!
Those pups are so lovely! I actually don’t understand how someone could do that
Is it that much hassle to put an ad in the paper or just ASK someone if they want some puppies?No,just throw them into a bag sure. The amount of animals out there is appalling
It’s no trouble for anyone of even poor competence.i wouldn’t mind but it’s not easy to get collie pups if you are not in the know,they sell easily.that person who did this is incredibly stupid and soulless
Poor lil puppies don’t know how anybody could be so cruel. Hope they ger rehomed together.
I can’t believe they put the poor things in jail
It’s OK…they are only young so won’t be charged as adults for trespassing in that fertilizer bag.
Will be out in no time to offend again.
I particularly don’t like the look of the one on the right…
Not only beautiful pups but the Border Collie is one of the most intelligent dog breed. I hope these pups find great homes and they will make loyal companions for 2 lucky people.
I always wondered why there could not be a canine DNA database in this country. You could get every vet by law takes a blood sample of every dog that comes into there surgery. And add it to the database
If the database was set up the pup owner could be found and charged with Cruelty to animals. time to get serious with animal welfare in this country.
It would cost a fortune, that’s why it doesn’t exist.
Then increase the dog licence to cover the cost. If dog lovers are serious about protecting dogs they should be prepared to pay for it.
Surely somebody knows something, they’re clearly not newborns.
Please come forward and have this bastard locked up.
As a owner of a precious border collie called “síofra”, I am total disgusted, border collies are one of the most intelligent dogs out there and are extremely loyal, it would have taken less effort to try give away the pups, hope whoever did this is prosecuted…
So cruel, police are great there were a few good story now about the police looking after dogs well done to them
Some people are just so unnecessarily cruel!!
Some neighbours or even family members must know who did cruel act…Please tell the Gardai as soon as possible.
If people don’t want puppies will they just neuter their dogs. Disgusting.
ah…so sad…i would love a little sheep dog…
Such a cowardly, sefish act. Despicable.
Reminds me of what we do to all those male chicks in the egg laying industry.
Well said Aidrian. We shouldn’t forget
Omg, they are beautiful x
Why would anybody do that. Id kill that person/people if i knew who they were.
Well done to the Gardai for looking after the 2 puppies
Sadly this isn’t a new phenomenon. Our older collie, now 11, was thrown into a fertilizer bag with her three sisters at birth then it was thrown into a brambly ditch. They were lucky to be found as it was a very hot summer. All four survived, thank goodness.
Our second collie was also a throw away. She’ll be ten soon.
It’s disgusting how animals are treated. There are rescue centers all over the country. Drowning, suffocating, throwing sacks of live animals into ditches, drains and the rives is not acceptable!! Teathering dogs to strangers gates, throwing them over the fence, leaving them on the roadside in countryside neighborhoods is not acceptable.
If you are going to adopt an animal, be responsible for it. If you can no longer take care of it, man up and take it to a shelter or find a new home for it. It’s the humane thing to do.
Ridiculous, how any anybody walk away from two pups screaming as they drown! We can put sick animals down but not sick people….
It was them damn sheep …….
Sick f**king pigs what type of person can do such a thing disturbed !!!
Poor little pups :(
Seriously, what kind of a Dirtbag thinks it’s ok to just dispose of an animal like that??
They were giving a warm bed in a cell that’s hard to believe nobody ever got one them
Why oh why can they not pursue this to the nth? There must be some way? DNA (too expensive?) but what can we do about people who can do this to what are undoubtedly a pair of hideous monsters that no body will want??
I would love 5 mins alone with the person or people who did this! Sick disgusting verman!
If that was children there’d be UPROAR bloody disgusting tougher laws badly needed:-(
The Early Purges by Seamus Heaney
I was six when I first saw kittens drown.
Dan Taggart pitched them, ‘the scraggy wee shits’,
Into a bucket; a frail metal sound,
Soft paws scraping like mad. But their tiny din
Was soon soused. They were slung on the snout
Of the pump and the water pumped in.
‘Sure, isn’t it better for them now?’ Dan said.
Like wet gloves they bobbed and shone till he sluiced
Them out on the dunghill, glossy and dead.
Suddenly frightened, for days I sadly hung
Round the yard, watching the three sogged remains
Turn mealy and crisp as old summer dung
Until I forgot them. But the fear came back
When Dan trapped big rats, snared rabbits, shot crows
Or, with a sickening tug, pulled old hens’ necks.
Still, living displaces false sentiments
And now, when shrill pups are prodded to drown
I just shrug, ‘Bloody pups’. It makes sense:
‘Prevention of cruelty’ talk cuts ice in town
Where they consider death unnatural
But on well-run farms pests have to be kept down.
Post of the year !
I wonder if they were experiencing such economic hardship that they felt like they could not take care of the dogs. When people are under severe stress (cognitions narrow) they will do crazy things missing better alternative options because stress has narrowed their thinking. May have felt great shame in seeking help for their inability to take care of their pets. Note: I love animals and do not condone what was done to these dogs. Want to find ways to help people/pets during hard times.
No, sorry. No amount of hardship is a reason to do this. Whoever did this deserves nothing but hardship and extreme pain for the rest of their lives. Disgusting waste of oxygen
Not trying to excuse whoever did this but suggest a little research on how depression/anxiety/stress impedes cognition and narrows perceived options. Hope the outrage over what happened does not narrow your field of view.
As someone who suffers from depression I’m aware of how it might effect different people. But it’s still not a good enough reason for me. Leaving those dogs loose in a wood or something would’ve been bad but I suppose understandable. This filth left these dogs to die slowly in a bag lying in a ditch. That’s not desperation from a bad situation, that is cold and evil because thought went into how to kill those animals.
How would a doctor who has just carried out an abortion rate in comparison to this evil pup drowner ?
Just asking for the sake of philosophical perspective !
I have my own views on the matter !
Maybe so, if they were really that evil with such an evil intent they might have just killed the dogs and put them in a hole. My point really, no one really knows the true motivation, was to go beyond the outrage and calls for violence to looking at some real reasons and solutions to why people dump their pets. I personally rescued a farm cat and have given her a good life.
I remember hearing the horror stories from my grandparents from when this was considered the norm. Back before dogs and cats were neutered it was very common for pups and kittens to be put in a sack and drowned.
Absolutely barbaric to people today, but certainly not to them as the person that posted the Seamus Heaney poem clearly demonstrated.
I would not be surprised if this was some old farmer who didn’t give it a second thought.
There is just no excuse. The person that did this should be ashamed of their life!!
Whoever did this is the lowest of the low. They look so lovely. I hope they go to really kind owner(s) who’ll love them as they deserve.
what is the matter with people all they have to do is advertise the puppies they will go very quick so why be so cruel , idiots
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