Just listen to this exchange between Ireland's Agriculture Minister and a member of the Irish parliament who questioned him on Thursday (December 6th) about the continued legality of hare coursing in Ireland. He actually accuses her of casting a slur on hare coursers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsJfU27UzA4

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The politicians that feature in my anti blood sports novel "Time to Stop Running" are fictional, though when it comes to how the Irish political establishment panders to hare coursers you just couldn't make it up!

Delighted to see that the book, which is a fantasy story laced with hefty doses of reality, has just got its first review on Amazon...and so grateful that it's a positive one! I have this notion that the book will aid the campaign to ban hare coursing in Ireland. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Stop-Running-John-Fitzgerald-ebook/dp/B07KK1F53Z/