{"id":59549,"date":"2026-08-27T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/antrim-couple-get-suspended-sentence-for-animal-welfare-breach\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:05:54","slug":"antrim-couple-get-suspended-sentence-for-animal-welfare-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/antrim-couple-get-suspended-sentence-for-animal-welfare-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Antrim: Couple get suspended sentence for animal welfare breach"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The couple were sentenced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Gallagher received a two-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years. He was also disqualified from owning or keeping animals for five years. <\/p>\n

In addition, he was fined \u00a3300 and ordered to pay \u00a3250 in legal costs, \u00a345 in court costs and \u00a3150 in veterinary costs.<\/p>\n

McLaverty received a five-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years, and was fined \u00a3500. She was ordered to pay \u00a3250 in legal costs, \u00a345 in court costs and \u00a3150 in veterinary costs. <\/p>\n

She was also disqualified from owning or keeping animals for five years.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Antrim and Newtownabbey Council said it “gives a high priority to the welfare of domestic pets and horses and operates a rigorous enforcement policy”.<\/p>\n

It added that it hoped the case served as a “warning to anyone who does not take appropriate care of animals”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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The couple were sentenced on Wednesday. Gallagher received a two-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years. He was also disqualified from owning or keeping animals for five years. In addition, he was fined \u00a3300 and ordered to pay \u00a3250 in legal costs, \u00a345 in court costs and \u00a3150 in veterinary costs. McLaverty received a five-month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2990,1247,2477,4581,889,888,5664],"class_list":["post-59549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-animal","tag-antrim","tag-breach","tag-couple","tag-sentence","tag-suspended","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59551,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59549\/revisions\/59551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}