Warning: this article contains distressing images. When Adam Dunlop and his young family built their dream family home in the Northern Irish countryside, they never imagined that the fields around their idyll would become an illegal dumping ground for dead animals. In a ditch on the side of a secluded country road near their house lies the rotting carcass of a large cow, as well as a number of dead sheep that have been dumped on top of each other. Dead farm animals in bags scatter the area, a few miles outside the village of Clogher. And there is a significant amount of general waste that includes everything from burnt tyres to mattresses and old kitchen appliances. "It's the smell that hits you first, then I saw the dead cow, and it made me sick to my stomach," Dunlop said. He added: "I'm very concerned, because I've a six-month-old daughter and we can't even take her for a walk up the road now because of this issue. "We wanted to live here because it's a lovely part of the countryside, and it's a shame on the people who are illegally dumping here, it's not on." A spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) said it was "concerned to learn
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Warning: this article contains distressing images. When Adam Dunlop and his young family built their dream family home in the Northern Irish countryside, they never imagined that the fields around their idyll would become an illegal…
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