Evil was projected into a Denver cinema via the barrel of a firearm.

The proposed children’s rights referendum will mark a turning point in the treatment of children in this country.

IN this Christian and supposedly civilised country there will be widespread cruelty inflicted on wild animals over the Christmas holiday season.

I WAS greatly amused by Nuala Donlon’s letter (May 20) attacking Deputy Mattie McGrath for calling animal rights activists “nothing short of terrorists”.

THE Irish hunting with hounds community is up in arms at the proposal of Environment Minister John Gormley to include hunt kennels under the remit of Commercial Dog Breeding Establishments statutory instrument, which he intends to sign into law shortly.

THE anticipated mass protest by animal rights activists failed to materialise at the National Coursing meeting yesterday, with about 30 campaigners picketing outside the Clonmel venue during the climax of the annual hare-coursing gala.

REPRESENTATIVES of animal protection groups will today protest at the finals of the national coursing meeting in Clonmel.

PROTESTERS called for a total ban on fox hunting yesterday and reiterated their determination to sabotage such events in the coming months.

Anti-hunt activists will hold their annual protest at the St Stephen’s Day meet of the Waterford Foxhounds in Tramore today.

The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has welcomed the restrictions applied to the Ward Union Hunt Club licence issued in Co Meath for the hunting of deer.

THE shooting dead of a red kite in Co Wicklow proves some firearm owners operate via the motto, “If it flies, it dies.”

I WAS disgusted by the letter from John Tierney of the Association of Hunt Saboteurs headlined ‘Guns in the field can become guns in the kitchen’ (August 4). To take a tragedy like that in Co Wicklow recently and use it to promote a personal opinion on anunrelated topic is, in my view, despicable. Given the scale of the suicide crisis in Ireland, one would have to wonder why anyone would use such a tragedy as a personal point-scoring exercise.

THE tragic event in Wicklow involving the deaths of three people in a domestic situation calls into question the need for having firearms in the family home.

Animal rights activists are renewing their calls for a ban on stag-hunting following an incident last week at a schoolyard in Co Meath.

Animal-rights activists called on the Government yesterday to ban all forms of hunting live animals.

ONE of the more disgusting elements of the pro-bloodsports campaign is the use of charities by hunt organisations as part of their public relations efforts.

ENGLISH fox hunters will not be welcome in large numbers in Ireland, following the House of Commons ban introduced last week.

THE Association of Hunt Saboteurs has called on the Government to follow the lead of the British parliament and legislate for a ban on hunting in Ireland.

THE Association of Hunt Saboteurs has attacked Joe Walsh’s record as Minster for Agriculture over his failure to advance the cause of animal rights during a lengthy career in politics.

IN Joe Walsh’s time at the Department of Agriculture nothing positive was done for animal welfare.

IT IS not often that a Fianna Fáil minister deserves to be praised for decisive action on an issue, but Environment Minister Martin Cullen deserves a pat on the back for refusing to give the shooting fraternity the right to hunt over national parks and nature reserves.

RECENTLY, the Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, John O’Donoghue, informed an Irish animal welfare organisation that his officials raised the issue of introducing drag coursing with the Irish Coursing Club, but were told that “coursing greyhounds would not follow a drag” and that “drag coursing would be unpopular“.

TERRIER work is probably the cruellest aspect of foxhunting.

ANTI-HUNTING groups last night called on the Government to immediately introduce legislation that will outlaw bloodsports in the new year.

Anti-hunt protesters are gathering today in Dublin, Meath and Waterford on what is the biggest day of the hunting season.