Horse killed in Dublin City Centre

19 comments

1. Disgusting.

2. Why was the horse put to rest ?

3. Was wondering what happened there, the traffic was backed up for ages after the match.

   Poor horse.

4. Worked to death.

   A nation of animal lovers.

5. Horse just cant cope with the busy urban cities and crwods, even the garda horse go through alot of training and only serve a few years, the owner should be put down

6. Poor thing. This needs to be banned. The concept of cars/vehicles in general has made the need for transportation via animals completely obsolete.

7. The people who operate these horse and carts are not they type of folk I’d imagine look after themselves let alone their animals

8. Why is this let happen…

9. We need to do away with anachronisms like this, generally. They’re only used to serve the romantic notions of tourists and idiots who want an “authentic” experience of Dublin and Ireland. The use of horses was perfectly fine when cities were full of horses and life was lived at the pace that horses typically move. Nowadays we have high speed electric bikes, cars, buses and trams flying to and fro and gobshites think that the poor horse can cope with all of that when most people do everything they can to avoid it.

10. I never saw the harm in having horses around the city but that’s all changing now

11. This is just down the road from the cobblestone in Smithfield. I’ve seen lads on sulky carts going down Stoneybatter a good few times. Seems to be for no other purpose than ‘Hey look at me’.

    Wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t give a shite past the ‘well I’m out the XYZ amount of money now’. They’ll have a new horse out there tomorrow until that one dies and repeat.

    They should really ban horses and carts in the city. It slows up traffic, it’s dangerous for both the rider / horse and people around it. A few weeks ago I saw someone cross in front of a horse + cart, in fairness, they were in the wrong but a horse can’t really slow or react to people crossing in front of it. The person was almost hit by the horse going at a decent pace.

    Also to play devil’s advocate, they could take great care of the horse. Could be a freak accident and the horse already had an undetected issue. I just find it hard to reconcile loving horses and being fond of them etc, then grabbing you and your mate in a cart to take them into town to be surrounded by buses and cars and stress them out.

12. It’s just a horse

13. There’s several cases like this around the world, carriage horses suddenly collapsing, dying or unable to stand and have to be euthanized.

    The most common cause is an aortic dissection, which can be provoked by strenuous work, or even play in the paddock. Cerbral hemorrhage is another cause but rarer.

    Congenital or genetic conditions can also cause sudden death. One example is “tying up” or
    [azoturia](https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/plus/vet-library/azoturia-tying-up-ers-equine-exertional-rhabdomyolysis-syndrome-702568), camping / spasam of the horse’s legs. It has a number of causes, one is a polysaccharide storage myopathy, a genetic condition. Tying up is usually mild and treatable but severe cases can cause severe cramping that can damage the horse’s legs, or it’s kidneys (damaged muscles can release toxic breakdown products can gum up the kidney’s ability to filter waste, causing kidney failure). If you legs or kidneys are damaged they have to be euthanized.

14. I grew up on an equine stud farm and spent my whole life around horses and seeing an old horse and cart in any city makes me want to cry. They’re nearly always in very bad condition, with sores and chaffing from the bridle and bits and their coats lack lustre. Not to mention the sweat pumping off them in the summer to cart around six tourists that could tour cities quicker by foot.

15. It’s not as if the roads are choked with dead horses.

    Getting this upset over one animal, which you have never met or cared for, is a bit creepy. They’re not people, and even if they were you’d not bat an eyelid for every human worker who pops his clogs.

    I’ll be downvoted for this, but it doesn’t make it less true.

16. It was either Dublin council estate scum or cousin fucking travellers responsible for this

17. Only a few weeks ago people on here absolutely slatted me for saying it should be banned . The normal bollox “oh, ban everything you don’t like” so on.

    Well go fuck yourselves.

18. Damn, someone’s transportation is gone, will the sulky races on Friday still go down

19. I remember as a teen my horse riding coach took in a rescued carriage horse. When she wasn’t working, she was in a dark shed standing in smelly dirty bedding, she was skinny and full of chaffing from incorrectly fitted tack. I notice everyone is talking about Dublin, but it is also a problem in Killarney. I wouldn’t be against a ban on these commercial carriage rides, that’s for sure!