The Irish Government should "do the humane thing and simply introduce an outright ban on the barbarous activity of foxhunting" - Read Paul Delaney's Letter to the Editor in today's Irish Times...
Hunting foxes
Irish Times, 29 December 2020
Sir, – At least John Fitzgerald (Letters, December 26th) and other like-minded people can sleep easy in the knowledge that for the duration of the current Level 5 restrictions, we won’t have to witness episodes of “the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable”. What’s respite for the anti-hunt activist is respite for the persecuted fox.
Instead of trying to placate both the pro- and the anti-hunt lobbies, why doesn’t the Government now do the humane thing and simply introduce an outright ban on the barbarous activity of foxhunting?
Indeed, it could ban all blood sports, even if it meant suffering the wrath of a sizable proportion of rural voters. You can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds in perpetuity. So let this administration dispense with the pusillanimity, take its courage in both hands and introduce legislation that would prohibit the right of humans to inflict gratuitous pain and suffering on poor defenceless animals. – Yours, etc,
PAUL DELANEY,
Dalkey, Co Dublin
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/hunting-foxes-1.4446617
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ICABS ACTION ALERT
Foxes should be protected, not persecuted. A RED C opinion poll, commissioned by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports, shows that a 77% majority agree that the government should ban foxhunting. The poll found that just 12 per cent disagree with a ban. Tell politicians to respect the wishes of the majority and ban foxhunting now.
Contact the leaders of Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Sinn Fein, Labour Party and the Green Party to tell them that you want fox hunting and all bloodsports banned.
Micheál Martin
Leader, Fianna Fail
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Leo Varadkar
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Eamon Ryan
Leader, Green Party
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Mary Lou McDonald TD
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Alan Kelly TD
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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
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