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Thanks to the Connaught Telegraph for highlighting the cruelty of hare coursing and the need for it to be stopped.
In its Country File column (16 July 2023), the focus is on the unique, scarce and under-pressure Irish Hare.
“We should value our native hares more,” the author of the column comments. “Aren't there enough pressures on the poor things already, what with intensive agriculture restricting their movements and that recently arrived hemorrhagic disease that afflicts rabbits and hares alike? And yet the so-called sport of hare coursing remains. What sport could there possibly be in setting a pair of greyhounds on the trail of a much smaller animal, even if this does have greater speed and agility than almost any dog?”
“Hares are still trapped and kept in captivity until such time as they are needed for chasing,” the column continues. “After being transported to the coursing field and worried half to death they might, if they are lucky, escape with their terrified lives.”
“It feels like time we did things differently,” it adds. “We should value our native hares much more than we do.”
Read the full column at
https://www.con-telegraph.ie/2023/07/16/we-should-value-our-native-hares-much-more-than-we-do/
URGENT ACTION ALERT
Contact Heritage Minister Darragh O'Brien and demand a refusal of a 2023/24 hare capture licence. The licence would allow cruel coursers to catch thousands of hares from the wild, hold them in captivity for weeks or months and force them to run for their lives in front of greyhounds.
Email "Please refuse 2023-24 licences for cruel hare coursing" to: minister@housing.gov.ie; mos@housing.gov.ie
Minister Darragh O’Brien (Fianna Fail, Dublin Fingal)
Tel: (01) 618 3802 OR (086) 251 9893
Email: minister@housing.gov.ie; darragh.obrien@oireachtas.ie
Malcolm Noonan TD (Green Party, Carlow Kilkenny)
Minister of State for Heritage
Tel: (01) 618 3148 OR (01) 618 3156
Email: mos@housing.gov.ie; malcolm.noonan@oireachtas.ie; pippa.hackett@oireachtas.ie
(CC: Green Party Senator Pippa Hackett, Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity in the Department of Agriculture)
Contact all your local TDs and urge them to pledge support for Jennifer Whitmore TD's "Protection of Hares Bill 2023". Visit the Oireachtas website for contact details for TDs https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/tds/?term=/ie/oireachtas/house/dail/33
A RED C poll has found that 77% of people in both rural and urban areas want coursing banned, with just 9% disagreeing with a ban. Urge Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tanaiste Micheál Martin to respect the wishes of the majority and ban hare coursing and all bloodsports.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar
Telephone: +353 (0)1-640 3133
Email: leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie; finegael@finegael.ie
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Tanaiste 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
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