Contact your local TDs and urge them to support Deputy Coppinger’s Animal Health & Welfare (Ban On Fox Hunting) Bill on the 17th of December.

Rural Ireland Against Fox Hunting have a Sample letter to TDs you can get inspired by.

by MCP-King

19 comments

  2. Hunting and coursing too. We’re better than that.

  3. What I don’t understand is why SF did not support the last motion to ban fox hunting. Surely a pastime of the British elite should be discarded?

  6. When they banned it in Britain it became a tourism industry here for British fox hunters to come over and hunt.

    It doesn’t sit right with me we’re allowing people to come holiday here to kill our wildlife.

  8. Is that plate real? It’s fabulous.

    Thanks for the heads-up up, will do. 

  9. Can we know more about the brave politician who proposed this bill? Somebody who is not afraid to go against the mainstream opinion when it’s completely wrong is someone worthy of respect.

  12. Hunting grown deer to eat with a gun, done with permission and permits is fine by me. It’s as humane as any carnivore diet and deer are plentiful and destructive to native forest.

    But yeah, if you hunt foxes with dogs and horses..

  13. I’m not against hunting. Tracking a deer through the forest to kill it, fill your freezer with meat, and make a buckskin coat of the pelt you made sure not to damage. You’re using most of the animal for something. You’re putting purpose to the kill and not being wasteful.

    Fox hunting isn’t that though. Riding a horse around with a beagle chasing after a fox with 20 other people and dogs. You’re not eating that fox. The pelt will be ruined by the dogs. You’re trampling on farmers fields, you’re wrecking what little forestry we have, and you’re holding up traffic when you and your band of merry eejits is crossing the road.

    So yes, fuck fox hunting.

  14. They seem to think it’s all urban and city people who want it banned, despite it also being widely hated by people who’s land they trespass on and destroy. Letting their dogs on to private property despite their being lead laws for everyone else. How half of them are the absolute worst riders you will ever see and treat horses like machines.

    There is absolutely no need for them to hunt foxes either when they can easily do the same without even having hounds on a controlled route.

  16. I emailed Minister James Browne a fortnight ago. Have had no meaningful response.

  17. I know someone who’s farm cat was mauled by the hounds. Nobody accepted responsibility and they had a three digit vets bill in the end. 

    We find the vast majority of “hunters” are horsey people, making social connection. Many are not local and do not know the land. Farmers get fined if they poach the land. That means if a field goes too brown on a satellite image, they get a nasty letter in the post.  A hunt in the wrong wet winter field is a disaster. 
     Edit. Poaching here does not mean illegal hunting. It is also a term to describe soil damage. 

    The other big scourge is lamping at night, there is a major trade in live wildlife for blood sports and hound training. There is a fear if you approach them to get off your land, they will hurt you or damage your property later. 

  18. Can’t see this without thinking of Heather Humphreys and “rural pursuits”

  19. Wait a second. I thought all of us in rural Ireland loved the aul hunting. Something about our culture or bollix like that.

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