"Some 77% of people in a recent Red C poll expressed a desire to see hare coursing banned. Let's hope the Green Party Ministers responsible for granting the licence this year hold their nerve" - Read Nuala Donlon's Letter to the Editor in today's Irish Examiner...
Call time on licence to course hares
Irish Examiner, 10 August 2020
Deputy Mattie McGrath is scare-mongering again! He recently claimed that if hare coursers aren't given a licence to course hares this year because of the RHD2 virus which is currently affecting the hare population, then the numbers of thugs 'illegally' marauding through the countryside killing hares will increase.
This threat seems to have worked last year when Josepha Madigan did a complete U turn and reversed her earlier decision not to grant a licence.
Some 77% of people in a recent Red C poll expressed a desire to see hare coursing banned. Let's hope the Green Party Ministers responsible for granting the licence this year hold their nerve. Because for the terrified hare, it matters little whether the thugs in pursuit have a licence or not.
Yours
Nuala Donlon
Lanesborough
Co Longford
ACTION ALERT
Please urgently contact Green Party Ministers Catherine Martin (who has responsibility for wildlife) and Malcolm Noonan (who has responsibility for the National Parks and Wildlife Service) and urge them to REFUSE a 2020-21 hare coursing licence.
Catherine Martin TD
Culture and Heritage Minister
Tel: (01) 618 3018
Email: catherine.martin@oireachtas.ie
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Catherinemartingreen/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/cathmartingreen
Malcolm Noonan TD
Heritage Minister
Tel: (01) 6183148
Email: malcolm.noonan@oireachtas.ie; MOS@housing.gov.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/votemalcolmnoonan1/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/noonan_malcolm
Witness the cruelty of hare coursing in Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkXOvbUPNNjMc6LShwiiXBfnDAPbykf
With a RED C opinion poll confirming that a 77 per cent majority of Irish citizens want hare coursing banned (with just 9 per cent disagreeing with a ban), it is now time for politicians to consign this nasty bloodsport to history. Join us in contacting all TDs and urging them to act to ensure that a ban is urgently introduced. Visit the Oireachtas website for contact details for TDs https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/tds/?term=/ie/oireachtas/house/dail/33
Urge Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tanaiste Leo Varadkar to respect the wishes of the majority and ban hare coursing and all bloodsports.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin
Email: micheal.martin@oireachtas.ie; info@fiannafail.ie
Phone: +353 (0)1–618 4350 or +353 (0)21-432 0088
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michealmartintd/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@MichealMartinTD
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar
Telephone: +353 (0)1-704 3630 OR +353 (0)1-640 3133
Email: leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie; finegael@finegael.ie
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