Animal Action Alert image for mobile phones 10 September 2009 Please download this Irish Council Against Blood Sports' action alert image on to your mobile phone and forward to your friends by MMS or email. Sending the image will help bring this important action alert to those who don't have access to email or the internet. Dimensions: 240x320. File Size: 34kb URL: www.tinyurl.com/helpthehares How to download: Access the 'Internet', 'Web' or 'Services' menu on your phone or wireless device and input this URL www.tinyurl.com/helpthehares Save image to your phone, open image and forward to your friends. Thank you. URGENT ACTION ALERT Please ask Minister John Gormley to stop licensing coursing. Email "STOP LICENSING CRUEL HARE COURSING" to minister@environ.ie Minister John Gormley Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Custom House, Dublin 1. Tel: 01 888 2403. Fax: 01 878 8640. 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 Gormley I am one of the majority opposed to the cruel blood sport of hare coursing. I am appalled that as leader of the Green Party, you have issued licences for this animal cruelty in recent years. As you are aware, hares suffer from the moment they are snatched from the wild in nets, during their time in captivity and while they are being chased by the greyhounds. When hit, they suffer agonising life-threatening injuries, including broken bones. The cruelty of coursing is clear to see at www.youtube.com/watch?v=D58qbzC-GI4 How can you possibly justify keeping this blood sport alive by licensing it? I strongly urge you to REFUSE a licence to the coursers for the 2009-10 season and to put in place permanent protection for this most timid and treasured of species. It is contrary to Green Party principles to facilitate animal cruelty. Yours sincerely, [Your name and location] News Menu | Join | Top | Home