Shame on the local businesses which supported the Clonakilty hare coursing meeting on 11-13 January.
Among the businesses which advertised in the coursing club booklet were pubs, hotels, shoe shops, an opticians and a florist. Please see full list below and join us in contacting each to urge them to show compassion for the hares and end their support for a bloodsport which a majority in Ireland wants outlawed.
Also, please sign and share our new petition
Businesses: Stop supporting cruel hare coursing
https://www.change.org/p/businesses-stop-supporting-cruel-hare-coursing
At the Clonakilty coursing meeting, pairs of greyhounds were unleashed to terrorise hares in an enclosed field. Video footage shows one of the hares being hit by a greyhound and sent somersaulting into the air before crashing into the ground - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73UFOJIUwok
Businesses which sponsor hare coursing and advertise in coursing meeting booklets are helping to keep alive this, one of Ireland's worst forms of cruelty to animals.
In coursing, thousands of hares are forcefully captured from the wild in nets, held in captivity for weeks or months and forced to run for their lives from pairs of greyhounds.
Hares caught and hit by the muzzled dogs can suffer painful, life-ending injuries such as broken bones and dislocated hips. Every coursing season, hare injuries and deaths are documented. The hares who survive the coursing ordeal, and are later released back to the wild, are at risk of subsequently dying from the stress-related condition known as capture myopathy.
Witness the cruelty of hare coursing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjOP4zqqGJE
ACTION ALERT
Contact the businesses below which advertised in the Clonakilty coursing club booklet.
Fernhill House Hotel
"Best of luck to Clonakilty Coursing from Fernhill House Hotel"
"West Cork Derby. Kindly sponsored by Fernhill House Hotel"
Tel: 023 8833258
Email: info@fernhillhousehotel.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FernhillHouseHotel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fernhillclon
Ostan Imperial Hotel, Clonakilty
Tel: (023) 8834 185
Email: imperialclon@gmail.com
Kevin O'Regan Fuchsia Footwear
"Best wishes to Clonakilty Coursing Club from Kevin O'Regan Fuchsia Footwear"
Tel 023 883 3136 (Clonakilty)
Tel 028 21629 (Skibbereen)
Email: info@fuchsiafootwear.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KORFuchsiaFootwear/
The Flower Basket
Western Road, Clonakilty
Tel: (023) 88 33 535
Email: info@theflowerbasket.ie
Scannells Pub Clonakilty
"Continued success from Shane and Kevin, Scannells Pub"
Tel 023 8834116
Email: info@scannells.ie
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scannellsbar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scannells.bar
Forristal Opticians
"Best wishes from Forristal Opticians"
1 College Road, Clonakilty
Tel: +353 23 8835488
Email: johnpaul@forristalopticians.ie
Bateman's Footwear / Batemans-shoes.ie
Carrigaline, Bandon, Clonakilty
Email: batemansfootwear@icloud.com
Tel (021) 437 3433 or (023) 883 4544
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/batemansfootwear/
The Doheny Bar
"Best of luck to Clonakilty Coursing club from The Doheny Bar"
"Doheny Bar and Facthna McCarthy Engineering Perpetual Cup. Kindly sponsored by Martin Brickley"
Tel: (023) 884 5973
John Lowney Jewellers
24 Ashe St, Clonakilty
Tel: (023) 883 3614
Email: lowneyjewellers@eircom.net
Phairs Pub, Clonakilty
"Best of luck to Clonakilty coursing club from Brian and all at Phairs"
Tel: 086 352 7047
Email: phairsshannonvale@gmail.com
Fachtna McCarthy Engineering, County Cork
"Wishing continued success to Clonakilty coursing club"
Tel: 087 251 9690
Email: fmccarthyeng@gmail.com
Murphy Insurances Ltd, Courtmacsherry and Clonakilty
Tel 023-8833499
Email: info@wmurphy.ie
Keohane Readymix
"Champion Open Stake. Kindly sponsored by Keohane Readymix"
Clonakilty and Knockroe
Tel: 021 477 5599
Email: info@keohanereadymix.ie
Cork Oil Collectors
Best of luck to Clonakilty coursing
Tel: (021) 4353437
Edward Donnelly Bookmaker
"Best of luck to Clonakilty coursing club from Edward Donnelly Bookmaker"
Crowley's Bar
Bantry, Co Cork
Tel: (027) 50029
Pat O'Sullivan and Sons Building Contractors
Licensed Vintners and Funeral Directors
Western Road, Clonakilty
Tel: 023-8835 421
Mobile: 086 0456 895
Email: daytonaconstruction@gmail.com
MJ O'Neill and Sons Victuallers
Tel (023) 883 3345
Edward Twomey Victualler
Pears St, Clonakilty
Tel: +353 (0)23 88 34835
Email: info@clonakiltyblackpudding.ie
Collins Bros Butchers & Abattoir
"Best wishes from Collins Bros Victuallers"
Tel: +353 2388 45336
Email: sales@collinsbros.ie
Greyhound and Pet World, Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick
Tel: 068 31389
Email: greyhounds@eircom.net
"Best wishes to Clonakilty coursing club"
Shannon Vale Foods
"Continued success to Clonakilty Coursing Club from Shannon Vale Foods"
Tel: 023 88 33608
Email: info@shannonvalefoods.ie
Riverview Veterinary Group
"Continued success to Clonakilty coursing"
The veterinary group has since responded to say that it will "review all our sponsorship immediately and ensure that our future sponsorship is consistent with our animal care values".
Urgently contact Minister Josepha Madigan and the National Parks and Wildlife Service and demand that they stop licensing hare coursing licence and end all forms of hare persecution.
Minister Josepha Madigan
Minister for Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht
Phone: +353 (0)1 631 3800
Email: josepha.madigan@oireachtas.ie, ministers.office@ahg.gov.ie, wildlifelicence@ahg.gov.ie, john.fitzgerald@ahg.gov.ie, Gerry.Leckey@ahg.gov.ie, nature.conservation@ahg.gov.ie
Leave a comment on Facebook: https://facebook.com/JosephaMadiganFG
Tweet to: @josephamadigan
John Fitzgerald
Director, National Parks and Wildlife Service
Phone: +353 (0)1 888 3242
Email: john.fitzgerald@ahg.gov.ie
FIND A SAMPLE LETTER AT
https://www.facebook.com/banbloodsports/videos/305830036809498/
The Irish Hare is a protected species but an exemption for coursing in the Animal Health and Welfare Act means coursers are not liable for prosecution for their cruelty. Join us in our call to the government to remove the exemption and provide full and permanent protection to this cherished species.
Contact An Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar and ask him to ban hare coursing and give permanent protection to hares.
An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar
Department of the Taoiseach,
Government Buildings,
Upper Merrion St, Dublin 2
Telephone: +353 (0)1-6194020
Email: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie, leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie
Tweet to: @campaignforLeo Tweet to @campaignforLeo
Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campaignforleo/
Please contact all your local politicians and ask them to push for a ban on this blood sport. Encourage your friends, family and workmates to contact them too. Visit the Oireachtas website for names of TDs and their email addresses http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=32&disp=mem Write to your TDs at: Dail Eireann, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-618 3000 or 1890 337 889. Please also arrange a meeting with your TDs at their local clinics.