{"id":478705,"date":"2025-10-06T18:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478705\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:50:15","slug":"caledon-mla-condemns-sickening-act-after-animal-carcass-left-outside-tyrone-catholic-church-st-josephs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478705\/","title":{"rendered":"Caledon: MLA condemns \u2018sickening act\u2019 after animal carcass left outside Tyrone catholic church St Joseph’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning: Image below contains graphic content\n<\/p>\n

\"St<\/p>\n

St Joseph’s Catholic Church in\u00a0Caledon (Photo: Google Maps)<\/p>\n

The carcass of an animal has been left outside the grounds of a church in Co Tyrone. <\/p>\n

Video footage shared on social media shows what appears to be the internal organs of several animals placed at a wall outside St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Caledon. <\/p>\n

Taking to social media, the church\u2019s priest Father Cathal Devaney said: \u201cThis is disgraceful and disturbing. Someone dumped this animal waste in St. Joseph\u2019s carpark Caledon. We have informed the police, local council and others.<\/p>\n

“I am very saddened and angry. I prayed for whoever did it. They are in a bad place. May St Joseph watch over our parish today and everyday.<\/p>\n

Sinn Fein MLA Colm Gildernew condemned the incident, calling it a \u201csickening act\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cI condemn in the strongest possible terms the abhorrent and criminal act on our parish and churchgoers with the dumping of animal carcasses at Caledon Chapel,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI also want to express my support for Father Deveney and all parishioners. There is absolutely no place in our society for this behaviour. Whoever is behind this sickening act must be brought to justice.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

An animal carass was left outside a church in Co Tyrone<\/p>\n

\u201cI am calling on anyone who may have information to immediately contact the PSNI.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: Image below contains graphic content St Joseph’s Catholic Church in\u00a0Caledon (Photo: Google Maps) The carcass of an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1249,1144,1210,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-478705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-kurtis-reid","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-tyrone-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115328728349810867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}