It's long past time to ban hare coursing. The Irish government can take a first step by refusing to grant permits this year for hares to be torn from their homes in the countryside, tormented, and forced to run for their lives for this "sport" - Read John Carmody’s Letter to the Editor in today’s Irish Examiner...
Permits for hare-coursing should be refused
Letter to the Editor, Irish Examiner, 8 August 2020
It's long past time to ban hare coursing. The Irish government can take a first step by refusing to grant permits this year for hares to be torn from their homes in the countryside, tormented, and forced to run for their lives for this "sport".
It's hard to imagine anything more barbaric: from the terrifying chase – during which sensitive hares, a protected species in Ireland, have been known to rupture internal organs as they flee the dogs – to the moment they find themselves surrounded, petrified and exhausted. The dogs are muzzled, but this does little to reduce injuries and fatalities, as they can still forcibly strike the hares, pin them to the ground, and toss them in the air – breaking their fragile bones, dislocating hips, fracturing spines, and causing internal bleeding.
Hare coursing is an archaic blood sport that has no place in modern society – it was rightfully made illegal in Northern Ireland and most other European countries aeons ago. It's high time we followed suit and let gentle hares live in peace.
John Carmody
Limerick
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/yourview/arid-40029059.html
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ACTION ALERT
Please urgently contact Green Party Ministers Catherine Martin (who has responsibility for wildlife) and Malcolm Noonan (who has responsibility for the National Parks and Wildlife Service) and urge them to REFUSE a 2020-21 hare coursing licence.
Catherine Martin TD
Culture and Heritage Minister
Tel: (01) 618 3018
Email: catherine.martin@oireachtas.ie
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Malcolm Noonan TD
Heritage Minister
Tel: (01) 6183148
Email: malcolm.noonan@oireachtas.ie
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Witness the cruelty of hare coursing in Ireland
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkXOvbUPNNjMc6LShwiiXBfnDAPbykf
With a RED C opinion poll confirming that a 77 per cent majority of Irish citizens want hare coursing banned (with just 9 per cent disagreeing with a ban), it is now time for politicians to consign this nasty bloodsport to history. Join us in contacting all TDs and urging them to act to ensure that a ban is urgently introduced. Visit the Oireachtas website for contact details for TDs https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/tds/?term=/ie/oireachtas/house/dail/33
Urge Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tanaiste Leo Varadkar to respect the wishes of the majority and ban hare coursing and all bloodsports.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin
Email: micheal.martin@oireachtas.ie; info@fiannafail.ie
Phone: +353 (0)1–618 4350 or +353 (0)21-432 0088
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Tanaiste Leo Varadkar
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Email: leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie; finegael@finegael.ie
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Please sign and share the petition
Ban Blood Sports in Ireland Now
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