From Kilkenny to Sri Lanka: Meet the vet nurse helping to care for three million street dogs

A Kilkenny woman who moved to Sri Lanka last summer to work as a veterinary nurse described how it felt like she was “regressing back into her teens” after living at home with her parents in Ireland.

Sarah Rochford, aged 37, said she had always been travelling and had only moved back home to live with her family in Kilkenny after the covid pandemic.

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