‘I have never felt such a Judas in my life’ – Limerick farmer’s guilt for sending cows to the factory after TB reactors

John Bateman from Croom, Co Limerick, whose farm has been hit by TB in the past. Photos: Don Moloney

Margaret Donnelly

Limerick farmer John Bateman says he felt like Judas last October when he walked his cows into the yard.

Instead of going milking, they were being loaded on to a lorry destined for the factory after a number of TB reactors were found in his herd last year.