Fethard Equine Hospital – Vets in Fethard
Clinic Overview
Fethard Equine Hospital is a purpose-built equine-only hospital established in 2007 and operating within O’Byrne and Halley’s wider equine practice. It works as both a first-opinion and referral centre, with a large clinical team and 24-hour inpatient care supported by interns living onsite. Recent feedback continues to highlight the hospital set-up, access to diagnostics, and calm, professional handling, including for urgent arrivals at any hour.
Fethard Equine Hospital is a purpose-built equine-only hospital established in 2007 and operating within O’Byrne and Halley’s wider equine practice. It works as both a first-opinion and referral centre, with a large clinical team and 24-hour inpatient care supported by interns living onsite. Recent feedback continues to highlight the hospital set-up, access to diagnostics, and calm, professional handling, including for urgent arrivals at any hour.
Services
- •Equine veterinary care only, covering both first-opinion cases and referral work.
- •Inpatient hospital care with 24-hour cover for hospitalised horses, with veterinary surgeon interns residing onsite.
- •The hospital is set up to provide a comprehensive specialist service across a range of disciplines, including a surgical clinic.
- •Reviews specifically mention strong access to diagnostics, along with diagnosis and treatment for individual cases.
- •Owners also describe the visit experience as professional, efficient, and low-stress, with positive comments about vets, nurses, reception, and dispensary staff.
Pricing
No published pricing information is currently available for this clinic.
People
- •Ger Kelly: praised in a review as “an absolute gentleman and a very good vet.”
- •Fernando: named in a review describing a positive experience with diagnosis, treatment, and outcome for a pony.
- •Website information describes a large hospital team including 4 surgeons, a medicine clinician, 9 veterinary surgeon interns, 9 veterinary nurses, and additional support staff.
- •The wider O’Byrne and Halley ambulatory practice is noted as having 20 ambulatory veterinary surgeons.
Reviews
Fethard Equine Hospital has a 4.8-star Google rating from 115 reviews. Recent written feedback is very positive overall.
- •Reviewers repeatedly praise the facility and hospital set-up, using terms such as “fantastic set up” and “fantastic facility.”
- •Several comments highlight the breadth of diagnostics and the knowledge of the vets.
- •The care experience is often described as professional, pleasant, and stress-free, with good interactions across the team.
- •Owners also mention helpful urgent access at any time of day or night and, in one review, describe the clinic as very reasonably priced.
