The feast day of animal-loving St Brigid coincides with an animal cruelty festival in which Irish hares are terrorised by dogs. Read John Fitzgerald's letter in the Avondhu and please join calls for a ban on cruel coursing https://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/st-brigids-day-coincides-with-an-animal-cruelty-festival/ #stbrigidsday #BanHareCoursing
9.2.2025 21:35The feast day of animal-loving St Brigid coincides with an animal cruelty festival in which Irish hares are terrorised by dogs. Read John...A protest against hare coursing will be held this Saturday 19th October 2024 outside the coursing field in #Edenderry (Next to Lidl and Tesco). Please join us for this peaceful protest from 12 to 3pm https://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/join-the-ban-hare-coursing-protest-this-saturday-october-19th-in-edenderry/ #Offaly #Ireland #BanHareCoursing
15.10.2024 15:30A protest against hare coursing will be held this Saturday 19th October 2024 outside the coursing field in #Edenderry (Next to Lidl and...Boylesports shamefully sponsors hare coursing in Ireland. It also profits from the suffering of hares by accepting bets on the cruel bloodsport.
Bets are placed on which of the two dogs will be first to force the fleeing hare to change direction.
Organise protests outside Boylesports outlets and register your disgust with the company's head office.
Tel: +353 42 604 1800
Email: care@boylesports.com
Download the leaflet and distribute outside Boylesports outlets.
https://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/a5-leaflet-boylesports-sponsors-coursing.pdf
If we're banning XL Bullies, then why not hunting hounds? Read John Fitzgerald's letter to the editor in this week's Galway Advertiser.
20.9.2024 13:19If we're banning XL Bullies, then why not hunting hounds? Read John Fitzgerald's letter to the editor in this week's Galway...Green Party Nature Minister
Malcolm Noonan meets shooting group NARGC at the Ploughing Championships. NARGC members blast Irish wildlife to death for fun (foxes, deer, squirrels, rabbits and birds, including red-list birds of highest conservation concern which are at risk of extinction).
The killing of CATS is also encouraged by NARGC. They are among the target species featured in the “NARGC Predator Control Manual”
19.9.2024 21:35Green Party Nature MinisterMalcolm Noonan meets shooting group NARGC at the Ploughing Championships. NARGC members blast Irish wildlife to...The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has called for updates to the Wildlife Act to make bloodsports, bird shooting, snaring and other cruel acts unlawful in Ireland https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=842261378046466&set=a.603523135253626 #Ireland #AnimalCruelty #AnimalRights
16.9.2024 15:39The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has called for updates to the Wildlife Act to make bloodsports, bird shooting, snaring and other...Public consultation on review and update of wildlife legislation: Please make a submission, calling for an end to the licensing of cruel hare coursing, protection for foxes, a ban on snares and traps, an end to the shooting of birds, etc. Deadline: this Friday 13 September https://www.gov.ie/en/consultation/01388-public-consultation-on-review-and-update-of-wildlife-legislation/
9.9.2024 22:43Public consultation on review and update of wildlife legislation: Please make a submission, calling for an end to the licensing of cruel...Around this time last year, Minister Darragh O'Brien shamefully granted a 2023-24 licence which allowed coursers to capture thousands of hares "by means of nets" for use as live lures for dogs to chase. Join us in demanding a refusal of a 2024-25 licence
Minister Darragh O’Brien (Fianna Fail, Dublin Fingal)
Tel: (01) 618 3802 OR (086) 251 9893
Email: darragh.obrien@oireachtas.ie; minister@housing.gov.ie
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DarraghOBrienTD
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41 injured horses were killed at Irish racecourses in the first 6 months of 2024. Most suffered bone fractures https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2024-06-26/135/ Thanks to Paul Murphy TD for uncovering these sickening stats #YouBetTheyDie Say NO to horse racing ❌🏇❌
Horse deaths at Irish racecourses
2024 (Jan-June): 41 deaths
2023: 111 deaths
2022: 107 deaths
2021: 113 deaths
2020: 65 deaths
2019: 102 deaths
2018: 111 deaths
2017: 88 deaths
2016: 83 deaths
2015: 89 deaths
2014: 99 deaths
2013: 121 deaths
2012: 82 deaths
⚠️ 96 greyhounds lost their lives at races around #Ireland in the first 6 months of 2024, sickening Greyhound Racing Ireland statistics reveal. Track deaths are 57% higher compared to the same period in 2023 • Govt must STOP funding cruel greyhound racing https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=805092511763353&set=a.603523135253626&type=3
17.7.2024 17:43⚠️ 96 greyhounds lost their lives at races around #Ireland in the first 6 months of 2024, sickening Greyhound Racing Ireland statistics...