"It goes against the spirit of showing dogs in their appropriate state, " Westminster President Sean McCarthy said.

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"It would humanize the breed, " Westminster Kennel Club President Sean McCarthy said.

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"It goes against the spirit of showing dogs in their appropriate state, " Westminster President Sean McCarthy said Monday, the opening of the two-day show.

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While the company provides scant details on its founder?s backgrounds, in an online video the company's chief executive, Sean McCarthy, claims the company stumbled upon a way to use magnets to generate energy when researching a way to power security cameras.

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The last time we heard from Steorn, the company had just joined a long line of optimistic but doomed people and companies unable to actually demo free-energy tech when put the test -- and although the Orbo didn't actually do anything, CEO Sean McCarthy promised us that we'd eventually get a working demo with physical access to the device.

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Richie McCarthy and Sean Tobin both scored four points for Limerick with James Ryan and Donal Og Grady both contributing three scores.

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