Still awaiting a response from Ireland’s Health Service Executive on whether it will halt a project at one of its Day Care Centres that involves people with severe intellectual disabilities in 1) the training of greyhounds for cruel hare coursing events and 2) attendance at hare coursing events, where terrified captive animals are mauled, tossed about, and have their bones broken, and greyhounds are also subjected to injury. In the 1950s, children from some industrial schools were compelled to attend to hare coursing fixtures, where some of them were traumatized by the cruelty they witnessed. Now, in 2017, Ireland’s Health Service is supporting and facilitating the involvement of vulnerable people in the same vile blood sport that is banned in many countries on animal cruelty grounds. It’s bad enough that hare coursing is legal in Ireland, but to implicate people with serious mental health issues in this sordid practice is an affront to humanity. Here’s the petition calling on Ireland’s Health Service to end the “therapeutic” hare coursing project: