A big thank you to Maureen O'Sullivan TD who has moved a Private Members Bill which, if enacted, will make it unlawful to engage in live hare coursing. Speaking in Dail Eireann, Deputy O'Sullivan condemned the bloodsport, saying it "causes unnecessary cruelty every year to thousands of hares through stress, injury and death."
ACTION ALERTS
Get in touch with all your local TDs now and urge them to back a ban on hare coursing. Visit the Oireachtas website for names of TDs and their email addresses
http://www.oireachtas.ie/members%2Dhi...
Email TDs online at Contact.ie -
http://www.contact.ie/contact-nationa...
Write to your TDs at: Dail Eireann, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-618 3000 or 1890 337 889.
SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITIONS
Minister Coveney: Save Irish hares from cruel coursing
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petition...
Minister Humphreys - Stop Licensing Cruel Hare Coursing
https://www.change.org/p/minister-hea...
Please appeal to Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney to remove an exemption for hare coursing from the Animal Health and Welfare Act. The exemption allows coursers to practice their shameful bloodsport without fear of being prosecuted for animal cruelty.
Simon Coveney, TD
Minister for Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture House,
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Email: minister@agriculture.gov.ie
Tel: 01-607 2000 or LoCall 1890-200510.
Tweet to: @simoncoveney
Leave a comment for Simon on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SimonCoveney
Urge Minister Heather Humphreys to show compassion for the persecuted Irish Hare and revoke the coursing licence she issued.
Email "Stop the cruelty. Revoke the hare coursing licence" to Heather.Humphreys@oireachtas.ie,ministers.office@ahg.gov.ie,taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie,joan.burton@oireachtas.ie,wildlifelicence@ahg.gov.ie,Gerry.Leckey@ahg.gov.ie
Tel: (01) 631 3802 or (01) 631 3800
Leave a comment on Facebook
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Tweet to Heather Humphreys: @HHumphreysFG
SAMPLE LETTER
(If you have time, please compose your own personal letter. Otherwise, feel free to send the short sample letter below. Be assertive, but polite, in all correspondence. Thank you.)
Dear Minister,
I am one of the majority who want hare coursing outlawed. I am writing to urge you to stop licensing this cruel activity.
In coursing, hares suffer at all stages - during the capture, during the time they are kept in captivity and during the coursing meetings where they run for their lives in front of greyhounds. Among the injuries recorded are broken legs, damaged toes and dislocated hips. Every season, hare injuries and deaths are documented.
I ask you to please act on the wishes of the majority, show compassion and stop licensing hare coursing.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
[Name/Location]
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