Two Connemara sheep

This is a photograph of two sheep taken in a bleak Connemara landscape.

These sheep have lived on the mountains of Connemara for hundreds of years but from 1 November 2008 European bureaucracy means that they have to be removed for five months of the year. This will cause hardship because the farmers who own them don't have enough other land to keep them off the mountains for nearly half the year.

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