The Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, is to bring in new regulations to ban the use of electric dog collars.  Electric fences will not be included in the ban and pet owners who already use remote controlled electric collars will not be required to remove them.   Kieran is joined by City Vet in Limerick Donal Ryan to learn more about shock collars. 

Shock collars for pets to be banned

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Leaving Cert students are set to sit Irish Paper 1 on Monday, however, they’re not the only ones who have an Irish exam coming up... David has travelled to Galway from Minnesota and Rusty is an American living in Galway who will both be sitting an Irish exam tomorrow morning. They join Kieran to discuss why.

Shock collars for pets to be banned

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