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An ultrasound scanner and a caesarean section kit were stolen from a vet’s jeep while he attended to a cow in a nearby field in Newport, Co Tipperary in the last 24 hours.
The jeep was parked across the road from the church in Newport, close to the graveyard.
John Berkery of Mulcair vets in Newport told the Irish Farmers Journal that his jeep was parked at 7.30pm on Thursday evening in full view of church in Newport.
"When I came back to the jeep, the passenger window was broken and the door was damaged.
"They took a portable scanner with goggles, a handheld clippers, a handheld computer for tb testing and they took a box containing my section kit.
"The equipment robbed was well used, there's very little if any monetary value on it but it will cost me money to replace. It will be time consuming for me to replace.
"I had it arranaged that everything was there for when I went to do a section," he said.
Smashed
Berkery said that on Friday morning a farmer rang him after 8am and said he saw a section box smashed up in the field.
"He collected it and brought it into me. They took nothing. I don't know why they smashed it. It was found on the road to Limerick. They've achieved nothing for themselves.
"They have no chargers for any of it, it has caused me such an inconvenience.
"The jeep is off the road, I need to replace a window and they damaged the door.
"It's a senseless act of vandalism," he said, adding that a month ago a vet in Nenagh was hit with the same theft. A section kit and scanner were stolen from her jeep.
It's a senseless act of vandalism
Berkery said the Gardaí were at the scene within minutes on Thursday night and that they are going through the cctv footage.
"It's put me out so much for no reason. It's just brainless," he said.
Gardaí confirmed they are investigating the incident of theft but no arrests have been made.
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