The defendants said ash dieback, a disearse that kills ash trees such as these pictued above in Carrick on Shannon, was in their area near Gort, Co Galway. File photograph.

A judge has cleared two Galway farmers of injuring an adult rook and up to four rook chicks along with destroying 10 eggs in up to 17 nests when felling a “very rotten” 110-year-old ash tree near Kinvara last year.

At Gort District Court on

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