Why is this still a thing in 2022? I know there’s been a lot of threads in the past condemning it but I don’t understand how it’s still legal when it seems to be almost universally condemned?

According to a RED C poll taken in 2019, 77% of the public are for a ban on fox hunting.

See [here](https://huntsabsireland.com/news/red-c-poll-the-irish-government-should-ban-fox-hunting-the-statistics) for a breakdown by region.

I wrote to a few TDs, the only one to get back to me was my local Green Party TD who said:

“A ban on blood sports is going to require cross party support and this is currently not there. At present Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil, and Fine Gael are all opposed to a ban on hare coursing and other blood sports, and there is work for us to do to convince them to change their position on this issue. You quote the Red C poll, and I think those figures are correct, and on this issue, as with many others, I think the people are ahead of the politicians on this.”

The politicians are supposed to be the voice of the people, isn’t that the point?

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  3. How many of the people who want this ban buy free range eggs, chicken , other poultry or lamb products?

    Because these are the areas of agriculture that foxes directly affect and why hunting or culling as a practice has developed.

    And what are you proposing to ban? Is it specifically fox hunting with horses and hounds for cruelty reasons? (If so I would agree)
    Or is it all hunting of foxes in general? (Which I would oppose a ban for )

    It’s easy to sit in a suburb housing estate with 0 connections to agriculture and say you are outraged.

    The type of people who think chickens and eggs come from lidl are the type asking for this ban.

  4. Wow, I’m not saying the Green Party are a paragon of action, but a do-nothing response from them on this issue? That’s depressing.

  5. No need for it, the population if needed to be controlled can be done in other means, foxes are smart, they will go to the cities and adapt once the green space is dodgy for them.

    Glasgow has loads of city foxes cool to see, eat the waste and rodents, doggy a bit for cats mind.

    Though why use animal to hunt an animal, like a pack of animals ?

  6. I dont disagree with fox hunting. But I disagree with any sort of unethical hunting. Like using packs to hunt other animals.

  7. Small number of people who care enormously who want it, large number of people who don’t care that much who don’t.

  8. I think this is the same everywhere fox hunting is still a thing : it’s a thing very rich people do. Those very rich people don’t like having their pastime pursuits abolished and tend to be very well connected to those who’d have to push for the changes.

  9. “It’s really bemusing, given the fact that Sinn Fein in the south say that they want to ban fox hunting but not in the North. There’s a pattern here developing of Sinn Fein having one position in the south and one position in the north.

    “But people can see right through it,” Mr Eastwood said.

    “Sinn Fein need to get their act together and have one position across this island and that position has to be to urgently ban this barbaric bloodsport.”

    SDLP leader Colum Eastwood.

    They have I believe said that they would support a ban in the republic yet in NI they say “regulation” is needed, not a ban… huh.

    It isn’t a great shock to me living in NI and being as familiar as we are with a party like Sinn Fein that such a party as them that can so casually commemorate people who blew others to bits can seemingly have such a flawed view on opposing a ban on defenceless animals being ripped to bits by dogs.

  12. I seen a fox heading for the Covid centre in Sligo early the other morning, he’d just had his breakfast behind Margaret’s Cafe. He likes Margaret’s, see him around there regular.

  13. Just yesterday I had 3 guys and about 25 dogs run into the field behind my house, chasing one fox. The dogs got the fox and were ripping it to shreds.

    I went out the back and shouted for them to leave. They then tried to pull the dogs off the fox and were struggling. They weren’t leaving fast enough so I went into the field to confront them as I knew for a fact they didn’t have permission from the landowner.

    I got to the pack and the fox was ripped to shreds and one of the guys went back to the main gate where 5/6 other lads were and was boasting he got it all on video.

    I fucked the lads out of it and am angry.

    I’m not against hunting but my god this was far from a hunt, this was an ambush, 25 dogs on one fox. What the actual fuck like.

  14. Does this ban include culling? Obviously don’t support killing for sport, happy to see that get banned, but there is a need to kill foxes to keep numbers down and save farmers livestock

  16. Is there money involved in fox hunting? I don’t much care for greyhound racing the way the dogs can be treated either but I can see the appeal on the gambling side keeping it going. If there’s not big money in fox hunting then it really is just a bunch of langers killing animals.

  18. If there is one thing instantly i would change in Ireland and anywhere else for that matter without thinking twice, it’s fox hunting.

    Pack of ignorant, sadist pricks who think they’re some sort of custodians of the land, getting all dressed up pretending to be some of fucking Brit aristocracy, parading around on horses with a pack of dogs chasing a lone Fox and ripping it to shreds. And then celebrating and patting themselves on the back. Absolute fucking knuckle draggers. Big men with their horses and dogs. Pathetic little pricks

  20. so basically they said “my opponents think this” while not doing anything themselves to give credit

  24. Graphic designer losing the run of themselves there.

    Foxes are regularly shot around here. Farmers will get a hunter to go around and kill what they can. I think they’re sick in the head, if I’m honest.

  26. A co-worker was out for last few weeks because they fell from horse while hunting.

    When I found all I could think was ‘Serves you right’.

  27. Had a girl in my class in college who did a presentation on why fox hunting should be preserved. Never spoke to her again, murderous maniac.

  31. I didn’t realise this was a thing in Ireland too. I thought this was the reserve of our twats.

  33. >Why is this still a thing in 2022?

    Why is the animal industry a thing? If you oppose harming animals you should be vegan at the bare minimum.

  38. I’d love to catch a bunch of these cunts and burn their cars whilst they’re out acting like red coat bastards.

  39. I don’t think there’s going to be much movement on housing or other social issues no matter which of the three biggest parties are in power, so I’ve made this my single issue policy next election. If you don’t oppose bloodsports and cutting funding to greyhound racing you’re not getting my vote and can fuck off out of my garden. Very straightforward.

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