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Huntsman (45) died after being attacked while feeding stag, inquests hears Gerard Withers suffered severe lacerations and bruising to chest and head
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A 45-year-old huntsman suffered fatal chest and head injuries when he was attacked by a stag as he went to feed the animal , an inquest has heard.
Father of three, Gerard Withers from Rossinarna, Liscarroll, Co Cork was fatally injured when, working on his own, he went to feed a red deer stag at the Duhallow Hunt Kennels in Liscarroll on December 29 last.
At an inquest in Mallow on Wednesday, Mr Withers’ father, Derry told how his son called to him at his home in Liscarroll at about 2.30pm on the day in question and told him that he was going to the kennels to feed the hounds.
A cow and her calf in a pen on Cork farmer Ger McSweeney s farm outside Millstreet The margins were not there at what I was doing part-time, selling calves as weanlings. Only the few very good ones were making money, mostly Limousin calves. So I took the chance to look at the whole thing. From a science point of view, things were improving off farm, with the Better Farm Programme. I had a lot of interest in it and was lucky to get involved in back in 2018 and that really helped focus the mind.
In 2018 when Ger went farming full-time, he had just over 30 cows in the herd, which he had been building up since 2013. The plan was to keep increasing the numbers every year gradually while in the background I was trying to get a lot of basics right.