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Thu 11 Nov 2002Farmer guilty of 'appalling' crueltyA judge has ordered a farmer to sell his sheep and never engage in sheep-farming again after hearing details of what he described as "an appalling case" of animal cruelty in which "excruciating pain" had been inflicted on sheep and lambs.Loughrea District Court heard how the Co Galway farmer told gardaí that the cost would not justify him getting a veterinary surgeon for sheep that were dying of starvation on his holding.