“I have always great respect for foxes, perhaps more than for some of the people who chase them” - the Sunday Independent’s Motoring Editor Campbell Spray in his column at the weekend.
Mr Spray, a former executive editor of the newspaper, recounted recent sighting of foxes, including one he spotted playing on a football pitch near his home.
“There are many sightings of foxes around Dublin during the Covid restrictions with emptier streets and some of their normal food supplies disappearing,” he wrote.
“I saw my first dead fox for sometime on the Navan Road last Sunday,” he added. “It made me very sad and I hope it wasn't another victim of the awful speeding that is going on, despite the gardai's attempt to control it. The amount of car accidents and deaths - especially among pedestrians - has been frightening during a time when we are meant to be staying at home, looking after ourselves and not putting additional burdens on health and emergency services.”
Read Campbell Spray’s column every weekend in the Sunday Independent.
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ICABS ACTION ALERT
Please join us in urging politicians to save foxes from foxhunting cruelty by banning the bloodsport. Foxhunting is completely unacceptable in modern Ireland and a majority want it stopped. A RED C opinion poll, commissioned by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports, shows that a 77% majority agree that the Irish Government should ban foxhunting. The poll found that just 12 per cent disagree with a ban on foxhunting.
Contact all your local TDs and urge them to push for a ban on foxhunting. Visit the Oireachtas website for names of TDs and their email addresses http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=33&disp=mem
Contact the leaders of Fine Gael, Fianna Fail, Sinn Fein, Labour Party and the Green Party to tell them that you want fox hunting and all bloodsports banned.
Leo Varadkar
Leader, Fine Gael
Telephone: 01-619 4020
Email: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie; leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie; finegael@finegael.ie
Tweet to: http://www.twitter.com/@LeoVaradkar
Leave a comment on Facebook:
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Micheál Martin
Leader, Fianna Fail
Email: micheal.martin@oireachtas.ie
Phone: 021-432 0088
Leinster House: 01–618 3000
Leave a comment on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/michealmartintd/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@MichealMartinTD
Mary Lou McDonald TD
Leader, Sinn Fein
Tel: (01) 727 7102
Email: marylou.mcdonald@oireachtas.ie
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryLouMcDonald
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MaryLouMcDonaldTD
Alan Kelly TD
Leader, Labour Party
Tel: 067 34190
Email: alan.kelly@oir.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alankellytd/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alankellylabour
Eamon Ryan
Leader, Green Party
Tel: 01 618 3894
Email: eamon.ryan@oireachtas.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EamonRyanGP/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EamonRyan
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.
Sign and share our "Ban Blood Sports in Ireland" petition
https://www.change.org/petitions/ban-blood-sports-in-ireland
SEE ALSO:
Faithful farmers forge unlikely friendships with foxes
RTE Six One News, Thursday, 28 May 2020
https://www.facebook.com/banbloodsports/posts/2958882560893949