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Millstreet TD urged to help end coursing in town park
06 September 2012
The Irish Council Against Blood Sports is calling on Fine Gael TD, Aine Collins, to support our calls for an end to hare coursing in Millstreet town park.
Deputy Collins, who resides in the town, has been told about the victims of the coursing meet held there last December:
"The hosting of this animal cruelty in Millstreet town park represents a major black mark against a town that has so many positive attractions and associations," we stated in an email. "Hare coursing subjects these delicate, timid creatures to an appalling ordeal. They are torn from their habitats in nets, manhandled into crates, kept in captivity for weeks/months and finally forced to run for their lives in front of pairs of greyhounds."
"It reflects poorly on Millstreet that this internationally condemned cruelty has been allowed to take place in your town," we added.
ACTION ALERT
Join our appeal to Aine Collins TD to speak out against hare coursing in Millstreet and back calls for an end to cruelty in the town park.
Deputy Aine Collins
Email: aine.collins@oir.ie (Copy to noel.buckley@corkcoco.ie)
Telephone: 01-6183873
Fax: 01-6184522
Twitter: @AineCollinsTD
Facebook: www.facebook.com/aine.collins.fg
Urge Millstreet-based Fine Gael Councillor, Noel Buckley, to support calls for coursing to be ended in Millstreet town park.
Cllr Noel Buckley
Ballyvouskil,
Millstreet, County Cork.
Email: noel.buckley@corkcoco.ie
Tel: 029 70322
Mobile: 087 779 7422
Fax: 029 71170
Contact the Millstreet Town Park Chairman and urge him to prohibit any further coursing from taking place in the town park.
Ask Millstreet to stop coursing in town park
27 June 2012
Photos from the Millstreet coursing meeting show hares desperately running for their lives. In these disturbing scenes, there is no mistaking the fear and stress of the hares as they try to escape a mauling from the greyhounds bearing down on them.
Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Photo 3
Note: These are links to a pro-coursing website
According to National Parks documents obtained by ICABS, 3 hares were hit during the December 2011 Millstreet meeting. Three hares were dead at end of coursing and a wildlife ranger noted that "a number of hares (at least 3, probably more) had conjunctivitis, as confirmed by Vet." At least 9 hares were found to be suffering foot injuries.
The hosting of this animal cruelty in Millstreet's Town Park represents a major black mark against a town that has so many positive attractions and associations. ICABS is calling on the town park committee to show compassion for the hares and permanently end the hosting of coursing there.
ACTION ALERT
Contact the Millstreet Town Park Chairman and urge him to prohibit any further coursing from taking place in the town park.
Videos: Coursing Cruelty
How to eliminate the hare from coursing
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