Shame on Listowel Arms Hotel for again hosting a fox hunt ball
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Shame on the Listowel Arms Hotel in Listowel, County Kerry for once again hosting a fox hunt ball.
The hotel and wedding venue is set to welcome hunters from the North Kerry Harriers for a hunt ball on 24 February 2024.
The North Kerry Harriers is affiliated to the Irish Masters of Harriers Association which represents harrier hunts. Harrier hunting involves releasing a pack of hounds to terrorise foxes and/or hares across the countryside. The animals are chased to exhaustion and when caught, they are attacked, bitten and ripped apart by the dogs.
The North Kerry Harriers’ persecution of foxes has been well documented, including in an Irish Field report which told of how one unfortunate fox was hunted for over 40 minutes by a pack of 19 dogs. https://www.theirishfield.ie/hunting-till-kingdom-come-686207
The 18 March 2022 report outlined how another fox was targeted and “a nice dash ensued over the typical banks and drains of North Kerry” before the hounds “marked their fox to ground”.
The fate of this fox was not revealed but “marked to ground” in foxhunting terminology refers to the point when the pack of hounds chase the fox into an earth or drain and this is typically followed by the arrival of the hunt’s terriermen who cruelly catch the fox using shovels, spades and terriers before the doomed animal is brutally killed.
More recently, a 5 January 2024 Irish Field report outlined how during a hunt from Glin Castle (shamefully hosted by British actor Dominic West), "hounds found [a fox] and they hunted on towards the Knight's View where in a clear day you can see the Atlantic. They then swung back downhill again towards the main road and the estuary." https://www.theirishfield.ie/hunting-hunting-alive-and-well-in-the-kingdom-799562
ACTION ALERT
Boycott businesses that host fox hunt events.
Urge Listowel Arms Hotel to show compassion for Irish wildlife and stop hosting hunt balls.
Listowel Arms Hotel,
The Square, Listowel, Co. Kerry
Email: info@listowelarms.com
Tel: +353 (0)68 21500
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/listowelarms
JOIN THE PROTEST: The Kerry branch of the Party for Animal Welfare will hold a protest against the fox hunt ball in front of Listowel Arms Hotel on Saturday 24th February 2024 at 7pm. Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/events/3705041363075884/
Cruel fox hunting should not be happening in modern Ireland. A RED C opinion poll, commissioned by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports, shows that a 77% majority agree that the government should ban fox hunting. The poll found that just 12 per cent disagree with a ban on fox hunting.
Tell Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Tanaiste Micheal Martin to respect the wishes of the majority and ban fox hunting in Ireland.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD
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Tanaiste Micheál Martin TD
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Contact the leaders of the Green Party, Sinn Fein and Labour to urge them to back a ban on fox hunting and all bloodsports.
Eamon Ryan
Leader, Green Party
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Mary Lou McDonald TD
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Leader, The Labour Party
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