Please contact all your TDs now to encourage them to support this historic bill Maureen O'Sullivan TD's Private Member's Bill to ban hare coursing will be introduced into Dail Eireann this Thursday 23rd June and it is expected that a vote will be taken on it the following Thursday, 30th June. It is imperative that everyone contacts all their local TDs in the coming days requesting that they support this historic bill. Visit the Oireachtas website for names of TDs and their contact details http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=32&disp=mem or use the blocks of email addresses below. If successful, Deputy O'Sullivan's bill would finally make illegal the capturing of hares from the wild for use as live lures for greyhounds to chase in coursing. It would be the culmination of decades of campaigning for a ban and bring the Republic into line with England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where this disgusting activity has been outlawed for years. The last Private Member's Bill to ban coursing was taken by the late Deputy Tony Gregory in 1993, which was sadly defeated. The solution at that time was to call on the coursing clubs to muzzle the greyhounds, but this has had a very limited effect and hares continue to be struck and mauled by the greyhounds, resulting in their injury and death. And it has in no way alleviated the terror and stress for hares taken from the wild in nets and forced to run before greyhounds. Recently we received under Freedom of Information the reports of maulings, injuries and kills for the 2015/16 coursing season, and the pattern is the same year after year. For example at Tubbercurry in January, it was noted by the National Parks ranger that 14 hares were hit, 12 injured, six badly, with 1 dying of injuries and 3 more put down. At Old Kilcullen last December, 7 hares were struck, with 3 dying of injuries, according to the coursers; at Co. Kerry coursing, 3 hares were struck with 2 being put down; at Dundalk 3 hares were struck with 2 dying of injuries; at Macroom 6 hares “required assistance” according to the coursers, a euphemism for being struck and mauled, with 3 being put down; at Mooncoin, 5 hares “required assistance” and 1 was put down. At Ardpatrick & Kilfinane, where an ICABS monitor was assaulted and had a camera taken, 3 hares “required assistance” and 2 were put down; at Ennis Clarecastle, 5 hares were struck, 3 injured, 1 died due to injury and 2 were put down because of injuries; at New Ross 7 hares were hit, 4 injured and 1 put down; at Rathcormac, 2 hares “required assistance” with 1 being put down; at Balbriggan, 2 hares “required assistance” with 1 dying of injuries. At a meeting in Cavan, 7 hares “required assistance”, with 1 dying from injuries. At Clonmel & Kilsheelan, 3 hares “required assistance” with 1 dying from injuries; at Cork coursing club, 4 hares “required assistance”, with 1 dying of injuries. At East Donegal, 7 hares were struck by greyhounds, but the coursers stated that no hares were hit over the two days. The ranger noted in a memo that on the second day of coursing “the club committee agreed to cancel two of the races...as they thought that the weather had taken its toll on the hares”. He added that “on the morning of the first day’s coursing there were three dead hares in the hare paddocks. At Bandon & Mitchelstown, 5 hares “required assistance”, with 5 requiring treatment by a vet, and 1 dying of injuries; at Liscannor 1 hare “required assistance” and died; At Templetuohy 6 hares “required assistance” and 1 died of “natural causes”; at Trim 1 hare “required assistance” and 1 hare died of injuries; at Wexford coursing meeting, a ranger stated that 6 hares were hit by dogs, 1 put down because of injuries. There was hardly a coursing meeting where hares were not struck by the dogs. In any event, every single hare taken from the wild to be used as live bait suffered from being removed from its habitat. ICABS is calling on all political parties to allow a free vote on this issue. Witness the cruelty of Ireland's hare coursing https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkXOvbUPNNiGTsXVvyZdECvNZfKcdNzB URGENT ACTION ALERTS Please attend the "Ireland: Ban hare coursing" rally outside Dail Eireann, Kildare Street, Dublin. 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