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Hundreds of protesters yesterday gathered outside a Kildare factory where serious animal welfare abuses are alleged to have taken place. Demonstrators carried placards and called for the building used by Shannonside Foods Ltd in Straffan to be immediately closed down. Disturbing footage of alleged abuse filmed at the facility was aired in an RTE Investigates documentary earlier this week .

The abattoir is currently subject to a legal notice from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine until they are satisfied with traceability. READ MORE: 'Angel warrior' seriously injured in Parnell Square stabbing 'doing well' in health update READ MORE: Taoiseach Simon Harris offers support to Rhasidat Adeleke over online abuse The department confirmed on Friday that no animals have entered the food chain from Shannonside Foods in the past three weeks. Ahead of the protest My Lovely Horse Rescue sanctuary co-founder Martina Kenny said: “The whole country is in uproar about this.



” Protesters hung ribbons on the gates of the facility in a symbolic gesture to remember the horses who died there. MLHR co-founder and director Deborah Kenny said: “This [protest] is in memory of all the horses who have died under terrible circumstances.” She said campaigners want the site to be immediately “closed down, knocked down and never used again”.

Investigations are now underway across Europe into suspected illegal slaughtering and traceability defects among horses killed for human co.

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