Archive for category: Irish Examiner

Live animals including dogs, horses, and rabbits, were used in research and testing procedures 242,302 times last year — up 7% since 2016. The number...

Almost 300,000 animals were used in Ireland last year to test the safety, quality, and potency of medicines. A report from the Health Products Regulatory...

More than 230,000 animals were used for experimentation in Irish laboratories in 2012 — more than six times the number used in 2005. Figures released...

A Government pledge to check that cosmetics being sold in Ireland comply with an international animal testing ban has been welcomed by animal rights groups....

Animal rights campaigners have expressed fury that the Government has ignored calls for a ban on the killing of newborn animals by “concussion or blow...

Animal welfare groups have hit out at Government plans to implement a loophole clause allowing Ireland to carry out experiments that inflict severe pain on...

New regulations governing animal experimentation are due before the Dáil

A new method of testing Botox has been licensed here but the controversial animal poison test it will replace may not be phased out

Irish colleges have spent over €3m buying live animals for experimentation since 2005.The number of animals used in tests in laboratories has rocketed 800% in...