Describing Fennell’s life as “a story of triumph over adversity”, she said he was born in the Summerhill tenements in 1969.
“When any owner agrees to adopt one of our animals, they sign a contract which states the animal can’t be sold on.
“Once we’d found her, we discovered that she’d actually been sold on four times.
“We’re always the biggest advocates for chipping and getting passports, because it gives everyone involved transparency when they’re dealing with animals.
“When it’s being done online, there are no checks that the person buying the horse is equipped to look after an animal.
“There were many tears when we went to collect her and we were delighted to get her and her foal back home.
No, we are not all in this together – and we haven’t been for some time.
So we have a system of mandatory hotel quarantine that proposed to put people who were fully vaccinated in a hotel for two weeks.
What they didn’t know then, but do know now, that the people coming back in from the UK would take a new variant of the virus with them that was up to 70 per cent more transmissible.
‘Normal Christmas’ meant a lot of booze and a licence to let your guard down.
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