This is the latest development of that news back November last year.
Apparently the judge ruled in favor of Mr Weir and ordered the Countryside Alliance to pay up.
Here’s a snippet of that article and link.
Maurice Weir told a court he witnessed a “bloodbath” when hounds from a local hunt club attacked the birds on his land in Loughgall, County Armagh.
He sued the Countryside Alliance over the intrusion by the Kinnego Grange and Canary Hunt Club’s dogs in 2009.
The judge rejected defence arguments that Mr Weir had fabricated the claim.
Giving evidence to the High Court in Belfast, Mr Weir described how he emerged from having lunch on 7 February, 2009 to discover “a bloodbath” on his Kinnego Road property, with dead and injured birds lying on the ground and in dogs’ mouths.
He said up to 15 hounds had broken into his pigeon lofts and aviaries and attacked highly sought after homing pigeons, some who could make their way back to Northern Ireland from France,
He had been planning to use the birds to set up a small stud business and sought damages for the killing of his pigeons, consequential loss, the cost of repairing his aviaries and a further payout for distress and injury to feelings.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-35588908
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