{"id":386943,"date":"2026-03-15T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386943\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:44:08","slug":"flock-of-lambs-found-dead-with-deliberately-broken-necks-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386943\/","title":{"rendered":"Flock of lambs found dead with \u2018deliberately broken\u2019 necks \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A flock of 13 lambs has been found dead with their necks appearing to have been \u201cdeliberately broken\u201d, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/police-service-of-northern-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police Service of Northern Ireland<\/a> (PSNI) has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The PNSI is appealing for witnesses and information from anyone who was in the vicinity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rostrevor\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rostrevor\/\">Rostrevor<\/a>, Co Down, on Friday night or Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Insp Reynolds of the PSNI said the force received a report that the lambs were killed at a farm on Drumsesk Road in Rostrevor between 7pm on Friday and 7.45am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt appears that their necks had been deliberately broken,\u201d the inspector said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis is a shocking crime, and we would be keen to hear from anyone who noticed anything unusual in the area during the times above.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Reynolds said enquiries into the incident were \u201congoing\u201d and urged anyone who has information to make contact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flock of 13 lambs has been found dead with their necks appearing to have been \u201cdeliberately broken\u201d,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,952,176950,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-386943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland-psni","tag-rostrevor","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116235381299338731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}