Poultry farmers ordered to keep flocks indoors from Monday over bird flu fears

In a statement on Wednesday, Mr McConalogue said the measures came as there was an “increasing risk to all poultry flocks”, and as a result to the the poultry industry from the current strain of the disease.

The department said outbreaks of the highly pathogenic bird flu had been detected in poultry flocks in the UK, as well as other countries in Europe. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre said while the avian flu causes serious disease in birds, the risk of infection to humans was considered very low.

Nigel Sweetman, the IFA’s national poultry chairman, said the first inland case of bird flu had been detected in Co Cavan.

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