Sad to see Minister for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity Christopher O’Sullivan among those who shamefully voted AGAINST the #BanFoxHunting bill in Dail Eireann on 17 December 2025 https://facebook.com/photo?fbid=1176363414636259&set=a.603523135253626
Minister Christopher O'Sullivan TD should be working to protect the red fox - an icon of Irish Nature - from this barbarity instead of voting in favour of it continuing.
Minister O'Sullivan is aware that in fox hunting, foxes are chased to exhaustion by packs of dogs and when they slow down and are caught, they are attacked, bitten, disembowelled, pulled apart. Foxes who try to escape underground are dug out with shovels and spades and thrown to the hounds - typically after hunt terriers are sent down the hole to corner and attack them.
ACTION ALERT
Contact Minister O'Sullivan and urge him to reconsider his stance, given the cruelty of fox hunting, the majority support for a ban and the fact that foxes play an important role in the ecosystem.
Christopher O’Sullivan TD (Fianna Fail, Cork South West)
Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity
Tel: (01) 618 3095 or 023 88 11011
Email: mos@housing.gov.ie; christopher.osullivan@oireachtas.ie
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SEE ALSO
“Ban Fox Hunting” bill shamefully voted down in Dail Eireann - how did your TDs vote?
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1176363414636259&set=a.603523135253626
Old excuses for fox hunting won’t wash – it’s time to outlaw barbaric bloodsport
https://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/old-excuses-for-fox-hunting-wont-wash-its-time-to-outlaw-barbaric-bloodsport/
Máiría Cahill: Rural stance no big surprise, but Sinn Fein vote on fox-hunt ban a sly move
https://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/mairia-cahill-rural-stance-no-big-surprise-but-sinn-fein-vote-on-fox-hunt-ban-a-sly-move/
Sign and share Uplift’s “Ban Fox Hunting” petition
https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/petition-to-ban-fox-hunting-in-ireland
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXtb77WD6yI
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