A big thank you to the Irish Cancer Society for rejecting a cruel foxhunting fundraiser. The society made the announcement following an appeal from ICABS in which we highlighted the cruelty and killing involved in foxhunting. The issue was covered today on Radio Kerry...
The Irish Cancer Society will no longer accept donations associated with fox hunting.
Radio Kerry News, 11th February 2019
The Irish Cancer Society will no longer take proceeds from the annual Abbeyeale Harriers Hunting Festival.
The society says it made the decision following a number of objections from the public.
The Abbeyfeale Harriers Annual Hunting Festival has been running since 2005 and has been donating the proceeds of the week long event to the Irish Cancer Society since then.
However, this year the Society has requested that donations generated from fox hunt activities are not sent to them.
The organisation says it follows a number of objections from members of the public.
Beatrice Caball from Tralee was one of the objectors.
"What gratification you're getting out of watching an animal being needlessly - not just being killed - but basically torn asunder - why exactly you'd want to watch that is completely beyond the realms of my comprehension. It's coming to the stage now where so many charities such as the Irish Guide Dogs will not accept money from dog racing because it's regarded as being raised in an unethical manner."
However Jim Murphy of the Abbeyfeale Harriers Annual Hunting Festival says they’re very disappointed with the decision.
"We're disappointed with the Irish Cancer Society that they didn't contact the hunt club and find out what our activities are about. People come from all over the country to watch the hounds hunting. They put money into the local community and it's a great social occasion. I'm going up there for 23 years and in that length of time, I would think about five foxes have been killed."
The Irish Cancer Society says it’s very grateful to the many people across the county that take time every year to fundraise but say they do not wish to be associated with fox hunting.
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ICABS ACTION ALERT
Contact the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar and urge him to ban fox hunting.
An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar
Upper Merrion St, Dublin 2
Telephone: +353 (0)1-6194020
Email: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie, leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie
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Contact the Agriculture Minister now and demand that the exemption for foxhunting is removed from the Animal Health and Welfare Act.
Michael Creed TD
Minister for Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Email: michael.creed@oir.ie
Tel: +353 (0)1-607 2000 or LoCall 1890-200510.
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Appeal to all Irish politicians
Please join us in telling the Irish Government that it is now time to ban foxhunting. Contact all your local TDs and urge them to push for a ban on this blood sport. 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.
Keep hunters off your land
If you are a landowner, make your land off-limits to hunters. Find out more about how to do this on our Farmers/Landowners Page - http://www.banbloodsports.com/farmers.htm Encourage all land-owning friends and family members in the countryside to show compassion and make their land a haven for wildlife. If hunters are denied access to land, the wildlife will be spared the suffering of cubhunting and foxhunting.
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