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Horse grazing by abandoned appartment block in Ballymun estate, Dublin

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Young boy riding his horse on Bell Camp housing estate.

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The Smithfield horse market in central Dublin

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Boy and his horse during the Smithfield horse market in central Dublin

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Community warden Rosina Joyce walking between houses  with the  illegal shed on the Travelers estate in Tuam

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Boys and their horse walk in central Dubli

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Young boy riding his horse on Bell Camp housing estate

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Dead horse on recultivated Dunsink landfill

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Galway.  Janine Zanon, inspector of GSPCA (Galway Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is retrieving a horse from a young owner, with the police helping her. The pony was starved and it collapsed later during transport, but was finally saved

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Homeless horses on the street in Finglas estate

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Boy sits on a horse and smokes a cigarette during the Smithfield horse market in central Dublin

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Jayl and his horse Gizmo on Bell Camp housing estate in Dublin

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Dead horse, shot in a head by owners

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Mural of a horse at the estate in northern Dublin

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Young boys riding their horses by Mc Donald's on Bell Camp housing estate

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Luke, 12,  with his horse by their home on Bell Camp housing estate

City Horses
Piotr Małecki

Since the beginning of crisis, between 10 and 20 thousand horses in Ireland have become homeless or gone in the hands of the youths in urban areas. Many Irish people who used to buy horses for fun during the boom years of "Celtic Tiger", now are abandoning them faced with expenditure of 35 Euro a day needed to properly maintain such large animal. Horse previously worth 2000 Euro now can be purchased for as little as 80 Euro or just caught on the street for free. New owners keep their horses in city greens, city ruins, or their house gardens, in very bad conditions. Most animals do not get much food, many are starving, dying.

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City Horses
Piotr Małecki

Since the beginning of crisis, between 10 and 20 thousand horses in Ireland have become homeless or gone in the hands of the youths in urban areas. Many Irish people who used to buy horses for fun during the boom years of "Celtic Tiger", now are abandoning them faced with expenditure of 35 Euro a day needed to properly maintain such large animal. Horse previously worth 2000 Euro now can be purchased for as little as 80 Euro or just caught on the street for free. New owners keep their horses in city greens, city ruins, or their house gardens, in very bad conditions. Most animals do not get much food, many are starving, dying.