The GAA is being urged to intervene to stop one of its affiliated clubs in Wexford from holding a fundraiser alongside a group involved in ANIMAL CRUELTY.
Monageer Boolavogue GAA, Camogie and LGFA club have organised a "Hunt Canter/Fun Ride" event in association with the Island Hunt this Sunday 13 October 2024. Adults and children are being encouraged to attend. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1043626574222922&set=a.520296289889289
The Island Hunt, whose logo features an illustration of a running fox, is affiliated to the Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association.
This group’s persecution of foxes has been highlighted by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports in the past. In 2015, we reported on a fox who tried to find refuge in a tree during a hunt and was driven out its branches and back into the path of a pack of hounds for a 50 minute chase. An article in the Irish Field stated: “At Ballymore, hounds marked a fox in a tree. Budding mountain climber Michael ‘Mouse’ Murphy decided to investigate and, as he was climbing the tree, the fox passed him out on the way down and gave hounds a great run for over 50 minutes.”
Details of the fate of this particular fox were not provided in the Irish Field report. It went on to focus on another fox who was hounded during the same hunt – “Hounds found a fox off Marchelstown Road and ran on into Letts of Hollyford. They hunted around the extensive covert but could not get him away and eventually marked him to ground.”
The GAA has been told that fox hunting is full of obscene cruelty. Fox hunters unleash packs of hounds to chase foxes across the countryside. When the foxes become so exhausted from the chase, they slow down, allowing the pack of hounds to close in for the kill. Foxes caught by the hounds are knocked off their feet, mauled, bitten, eviscerated and pulled apart. When a fox desperately attempts to find refuge underground, hunt terriermen are typically called in. They send terriers down after the fox. The fox is attacked and cornered while the hunters dig the clay away from above. The injured and squealing fox is then pulled out and brutally killed.
“It is entirely inappropriate and unacceptable for a GAA club to associate with a fox hunt,” we stated in our message to the GAA. “We implore the GAA to side with vast majority who want fox hunting outlawed in Ireland and take action to stop this outrageous fundraiser.”
Previously, Monageer Boolavogue GAA, Camogie and LGFA club shamefully organised a fundraiser at Enniscorthy greyhound track, despite the cruelty and killing inherent in the gambling activity.
ACTION ALERT
Join us in urging the GAA to take action to stop the fox hunt fundraiser.
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Appeal directly to Monageer Boolavogue GAA, Camogie and LGFA club
Mylo Fenlon
Chairperson
Tel: 086 8162222
Email: chairperson.monageerboolavogue.wexford@gaa.ie
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