Foxes could be heard SCREAMING when a foxhunt invaded Achill Island, a European Election candidate has told ICABS.
Saoirse McHugh, the Green Party’s candidate for the Midlands-North-West Constituency, described the horror that unfolded for wildlife on the County Mayo island - “A fox hunt came to Achill a few years ago. The hunt went where ever it pleased - through people’s gardens, etc - and the screaming of the foxes was heard all over the village. People were really upset by this gruesome event. All for the entertainment of a few people.”
Responding to a query from ICABS, the Achill Islander said she views bloodsports, including foxhunting as “absolutely disgusting”.
“It is a prime example of the total disregard with which we treat our environment and wildlife and that disregard has brought us to this critical juncture where our entire society must change,” she added.
Saoirse McHugh is one of three Green Party representatives running in the European Parliament election - along with Dublin City Councillor Ciaran Cuffe and Senator Grace O’Sullivan. Voting in Ireland will take place on Friday 24 May.
Find out the views of other candidates on our special election page at
https://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2019/03/26/european-election-candidates-and-animal-cruelty-issues/
For more information on Saoirse McHugh and the Green Party candidates, visit http://saoirsemchugh.ie/about/ and https://www.greenparty.ie/the-green-wave-reaches-galway-green-party-launch-their-european-campaign/
ACTION ALERT
Please vote for compassionate candidates in the European Parliament election and reject those who support animal cruelty.
Contact the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar and appeal to 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
Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campaignforleo/
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Contact the Minister for Agriculture and demand the removal of an exemption for foxhunting from the Animal Health and Welfare Act. Section 12 of the Act, which deals with “Prohibition on animal cruelty” states: “Nothing in this section applies in relation to anything which occurs in the ordinary course of...lawfully hunting an animal, unless the animal is released in an injured, mutilated or exhausted condition”
Michael Creed TD
Minister for Agriculture
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Email: michael.creed@oir.ie
Tel: +353 (0)1-607 2000 or LoCall 1890-200510.
Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaelcreedtd
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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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