The Mayo News Reports this week:

Grainne O’Hagan from Dooagh was walking her own dogs last Sunday week along a bog road beside the ‘Whitestar’ quarry, near Slievemore, on Achill Island, when she came upon the horrific scene of two one-year-old dogs tied together, shot in the face and left to die. One of the dogs was dead on discovery but the other was still alive but bleeding heavily with a shotgun blast to the neck and head.

Grainne told The Mayo News that the scene was ‘horrific’ and made her sick to her stomach. Part of the living dog’s face and eye was ‘blown away’. She found the dogs a mile-and-a-half from the village of Dooagh and they were tied together and concealed in rushes off the bog road.
She called the local vet John Paul Corrigan who was in Westport at the time and also called the local Garda station. Garda Brian Murphy freed the dog and he brought it to Achill Sound Garda Station where it was later put down by the vet.

“I found the dogs lying in the grass with a rope around their necks and tied to each other. One was dead but the other waand you could see the blood on the ground. I couldn’t free the dog and I had to go home and call the vet and the Gardaí. Garda Brian Murphy freed the dogs and found two shotgun cartridges. Both were shot and left to die and the dog who was alive was shot in the neck and part of the face.

“The dog was crying with part of its face and eye gone and swarms of midges around him. I had to carry him in a box to my car and he was losing so much blood that it covered my clothes in blood. He was in and out of consciousness and Garda Murphy brought him to the station to meet with the vet. The local people here are disgusted at this horrific and cruel act,” she said.
Grainne called on anybody who may have any information to contact the Achill Sound Gardaí or the MSPCA in confidence.

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