"It just beggars belief - fox hunting is a relic from our colonial past when we were oppressed by a colonial power. The same colonial power has banned fox hunting and yet we still see it as a worthwhile practice in rural Ireland" - Thank you to Maureen O'Sullivan TD (Independent, Dublin Central) for questioning Agriculture Minister Michael Creed about cruel foxhunting and the encroachment of hunts into residential areas.
There should be no place for this cruel blood sport in modern Ireland. Foxes are chased to exhaustion and ripped apart by a pack of hounds when caught - all for the amusement of sadistic hunters who take pleasure from seeing animals running for their lives.
ACTION ALERT
Sign our "Ban Blood Sports in Ireland" petition
https://www.change.org/petitions/ban-blood-sports-in-ireland
Demand a ban on foxhunting in Ireland
Michael Creed TD
Minister for Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Email: michael.creed@oir.ie
Tel: 01-607 2000 or LoCall 1890-200510.
Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaelcreedtd
Tweet to: @creedcnw
Contact the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) and Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and urge them to ban fox hunting.
An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar
Department of the Taoiseach,
Upper Merrion St, Dublin 2
Telephone: +353 (0)1-6194020
Email: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie, leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie
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Tanaiste Simon Coveney TD
Iveagh House
80 St Stephen's Green
Dublin 2
Phone: +353 (0)1 408 2000
Email: simon.coveney@oireachtas.ie
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SimonCoveney
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Appeal to all Irish politicians
Please join us in telling the Irish Government that it is now time to replace foxhunting with the humane alternative - drag hunting.
Drag hunting sees the hounds chasing an artificial lure instead of a live animal. This form of "hunting" is already practised successfully by a few groups in Ireland. In a modern and civilised country like Ireland, there should be no place for foxhunting, particularly when a transition to drag hunting would be simple.
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.