Animal lovers have started a campaign to erect a statue in memory of a donkey starved to death in Co Donegal. It was found starving and wasting away in a bed of mud in sheds beside Fanad Lighthouse last Friday.
Members of the Donegal Donkey Sanctuary rescued the terrified animal but it died a short time later at the sanctuary in Raphoe.
The group also wants to gather as many signatures as possible calling for effective measures to stop this kind of cruelty once and for all.
The petition will be taken by donkey and cart and delivered to Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney at Leinster House.