Shame on the local businesses which supported the Sevenhouses and Waterford & District coursing meeting on 11-13 January.
At this animal cruelty event, pairs of greyhounds were unleashed to terrorise hares in an enclosed field. Over the two days, hares were terrorised, hit and mauled into the ground by dogs.
Businesses which sponsor hare coursing and advertise in coursing meeting booklets are helping to keep alive this, one of Ireland's worst forms of cruelty to animals.
Please join us in contacting each business to urge them to show compassion for the hares and end their support for a bloodsport which a majority in Ireland wants outlawed.
In coursing, thousands of hares are forcefully captured from the wild in nets, held in captivity for weeks or months and forced to run for their lives from pairs of greyhounds.
Hares caught and hit by the muzzled dogs can suffer painful, life-ending injuries such as broken bones and dislocated hips. Every coursing season, hare injuries and deaths are documented. The hares who survive the coursing ordeal, and are later released back to the wild, are at risk of subsequently dying from the stress-related condition known as capture myopathy.
Witness the cruelty of hare coursing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjOP4zqqGJE
ACTION ALERT
Contact the businesses below which advertised in the Sevenhouses and Waterford & District coursing booklet.
Clem Jacob Hire
(provider of plant, machinery & access equipment hire in Waterford)
"Best wishes to Waterford and District Coursing Club from Clem Jacob Hire"
Tel: +353 51 373 333
Email: clem@clemhire.com, info@clemhire.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Clem-Jacob-Hire-119086674835214/
Heather's Top Dog Boarding Kennels
Waterford
"Best wishes to Waterford & District Coursing Club from Top Dog Boarding Kennels"
Tel: 086 836 6878
Email: heather@foxmountcountryhouse.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeathersTopDogBoarding/
Oleum Oil
"Best wishes to Sevenhouses coursing club from Oleum Oil"
Tel: (056) 772 8132
Email: oleum@eircom.net
Pat Carroll's Pub and Off Licence
Ballybough Street, Kilkenny
"Best of Luck to all at Sevenhouses"
"Garnaman Stake and Leo Dwyer Cup - Kindly sponsored by Pat Carrolls Pub and Off Licence"
Phone: (056)7722405
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pat.carrolls
Country Style Foods
Granagh, Co Kilkenny
"Best wishes to Sevenhouses coursing club from Country Style Foods"
Email: info@countrystylefoods.ie
Phone: 353 51 876 760
Townview Foods (UK)
Tel: +44 2830 257760
Email: info@townviewfoods.co.uk
Maurice Jackson Ltd
Waterford Plumbing and Heating
"Best wishes to Waterford and District Coursing Club from Maurice Jackson Ltd"
"Waterford Reserve Derby Trial Stake - kindly sponsored by Maurice Jackson"
Tel: 051 874 564
Mobile: 087 254 1819
Email: waterfordph@eircom.net
Siobhan's Hair and Design
"Best wishes to Waterford & District Coursing Club from Siobhan's Hair & Design"
Ardkeen shopping complex, Waterford
Tel 051-872 259
Kingswood Agri
Athy, Co Kildare
"Best wishes to Sevenhouses coursing club from Kingswood Agri"
Tel: +353 59 86 24191
Email: kingswoodagri@gmail.com
Gala Talbot's Inch, Supermarket and filling station
"Best wishes to Sevenhouses & District Coursing Club from Gala Talbot's Inch"
Tel: (056) 776 2805
Email: tifs@live.ie, galacustomerservice@gala.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GalaTalbotsInch/
Tweet to: https://twitter.com/gala_retail
Bennettsbridge Limestone Quarries Ltd
Kilree, Sheastown, County Kilkenny
Tel: 056 772 7317
Email: info@bbl.ie
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BennettsbridgeLimestone/
Templebar Inn Hotel
Templebar, Dublin
"Best wishes to Sevenhouses coursing from Templebar Inn Hotel"
Telephone: +353 (0)1 484 5010
Email: reservations@templebarinn.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/templebarinn
Tweet to @TempleBarInn
In response to an ICABS appeal, a hotel spokesperson stated: "We will take this into careful consideration for any future advertising opportunities".
Hotel Minella
Clonmel, Co Tipperary
"Best wishes to Sevenhouses coursing from Hotel Minella"
Tel +353 52 6122388
Email frontdesk@hotelminella.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hotelminellaclonmel/
Tweet to @hotelminella
AP Systems Alarms
37A Hebron Business Park, Kilkenny
Tel: 056 77 222 54
Email: info@apsystems.ie
Kilkenny Greyhound Track
Telephone: 056 7721214
Tony Rafter Building Contractor
"Best wishes to Sevenhouses & District coursing club from Tony Rafter Building Contractor"
Tel: 086 2666463
Flower Power
Garden Centre and Florist, Dublin Road, Kilkenny
"Continued success to Sevenhouses Coursing Club"
Tel: 056 7712 679
Email: flowerpowercentre@gmail.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/flowerpowerkilkenny/
Sinnott Kitchens
"Every success to Sevenhouses coursing club from Sinnott Kitchens"
Tel: 056 7728294
Email: sinnottkitchen@eircom.net
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sinnottkitchens/
Urgently contact Minister Josepha Madigan and the National Parks and Wildlife Service and demand that they stop licensing hare coursing licence and end all forms of hare persecution.
Minister Josepha Madigan
Minister for Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht
Phone: +353 (0)1 631 3800
Email: josepha.madigan@oireachtas.ie, ministers.office@ahg.gov.ie, wildlifelicence@ahg.gov.ie, john.fitzgerald@ahg.gov.ie, Gerry.Leckey@ahg.gov.ie, nature.conservation@ahg.gov.ie
Leave a comment on Facebook: https://facebook.com/JosephaMadiganFG
Tweet to: @josephamadigan
John Fitzgerald
Director, National Parks and Wildlife Service
Phone: +353 (0)1 888 3242
Email: john.fitzgerald@ahg.gov.ie
FIND A SAMPLE LETTER AT
https://www.facebook.com/banbloodsports/videos/305830036809498/
The Irish Hare is a protected species but an exemption for coursing in the Animal Health and Welfare Act means coursers are not liable for prosecution for their cruelty. Join us in our call to the government to remove the exemption and provide full and permanent protection to this cherished species.
Contact An Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar and ask him to ban hare coursing and give permanent protection to hares.
An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar
Department of the Taoiseach,
Government Buildings,
Upper Merrion St, Dublin 2
Telephone: +353 (0)1-6194020
Email: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie, leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ie
Tweet to: @campaignforLeo Tweet to @campaignforLeo
Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campaignforleo/
Please contact all your local politicians and ask them to push for a ban on this blood sport. Encourage your friends, family and workmates to contact them too. Visit the Oireachtas website for names of TDs and their email addresses http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=32&disp=mem Write to your TDs at: Dail Eireann, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-618 3000 or 1890 337 889. Please also arrange a meeting with your TDs at their local clinics.