Evidence that minister is wrong about hares being in no danger from coursing

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Last month Minister Shane McEntee claimed that "the hare is in no danger" in coursing. His support for the activity is shared by other government figures such as Environment Minister Phil Hogan and Waterford's Deputy Paudie Coffey, by FF's Barry Cowen and Sinn Fein's Martin Ferris.

I wonder if any of these gentlemen will re-think his fondness for hare coursing in the wake of film footage just released. Observers from the Irish Council Blood Sports captured a number of incidents of film, including the following two of hares clearly being mauled by greyhounds at the "Irish Cup" coursing event, held in the last weekend of Ferbruary on Limerick racecourse. This new evidence will aid the upcoming Bill to be moved by Deputies Clare Daly and Maureen O' Sullivan that aims to ban hare coursing:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md35mrElADM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etQ-JCtJy9Y

[Justin Casey]

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Poor little hares, they're such lovely creatures. Some aspects of our "culture" makes you realise that the ongoing destruction of this country isn't necessarily an altogether bad thing.

Yet Man doth think himself so Gentle and Mild,
When of all Creatures he's most Cruel, Wild,
Nay, so Proud, that he only thinks to Live,
That God a God-like Nature him did give,
And that all Creatures for his Sake alone
Were made, for him to Tyrannize upon.

from The Hunting of the Hare by Margaret Cavendish (c.1624–1674)