Organisation: Ward Union

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

racing

‘It was a feather in the cap to get him over because he was iconic’

Last Monday’s Irish Grand National evoked plenty of memories for Roy Craigie, many of them from long before he enjoyed an 11-year stint as Fairyhouse general manager up to 1999.

racing

All systems go with Jezki

We need to keep FG’s hunting bias on tight lead

news

Anti-coursing campaigners vow to fight on

Cowen & Co should enjoy Fianna Fáil sensibly

My mission statement for future of farming in the national interest

Hunting move angers FF backbenchers

THE Green Party has riled up backbench Fianna Fáil TDs by pressing ahead with a controversial law to stop pack dogs hunting stags.

Fri, 25 Jun, 2010

Greens accuse Labour of 'pick and mix' politics

Green Party leader John Gormley launched a withering attack on Labour TDs tonight accusing them of cynically abandoning principles in favour of pick and mix politics.

Thu, 24 Jun, 2010

Hunt supporters vow to continue fighting ban

Pro-hunt supporters today vowed they would not be knocked off course by today‘s publication of a draft law outlawing stag hunting with hounds.

Tue, 20 Apr, 2010

Laws to ban stag hunting spark protest

MORE than 200 rural campaigners yesterday voiced their anger over new laws to ban stag hunting, and to defend what they call “traditional rural sports like hunting, coursing, shooting and angling”.

Tue, 13 Apr, 2010

Green Party to feel wrath of field sports protesters

LARGE numbers of people opposed to Green Party legislation on field sports are expected to take part in a public protest at the party’s national conference in Waterford city this weekend.

Thu, 25 Mar, 2010

Hunting club gets permission to challenge minister

A HUNTING club yesterday obtained High Court permission to challenge a decision by Environment Minister John Gormley to put restrictions on its licence to hunt deer, which it says amounts to an effective ban.

Tue, 05 Feb, 2008

Protesters to picket coursing festival

THOUSANDS of hare coursing fans are due to descend on Tipperary for the annual three-day national championships.

Mon, 04 Feb, 2008

Thousands expected at coursing championships in Clonmel

Thousands of hare coursing fans are due to descend on Ireland for the annual three-day national championships.

Sun, 03 Feb, 2008

Remax drawn into hunting row

ONE of the country’s biggest estate agencies has been drawn into a row between anti- and pro-hunt campaigners.

Mon, 21 Jan, 2008

Old dogs at new tricks as hunting camps lock horns

ALL’S fair in love and war, as they say. Or is it? Hunters and campaigners against bloodsports are never going to see eye to eye.

Sat, 19 Jan, 2008

Mad King George’s ‘dangerous delusion’ persists to this day

APOLOGISTS for the Ward Union staghunt are losing the run of themselves in their bid to defend a blood sport that even foxhunters consider an embarrassment.

Mon, 24 Sep, 2007

Stag-hunters should find some other pursuit

BLOODSPORTS enthusiasts, and in particular the Ward Union Hunt in Co Meath, have been making an unholy show of themselves on the airwaves recently.

Tue, 11 Sep, 2007

Gormley accused of ‘pandering to lobby groups’

ENVIRONMENT Minister John Gormley’s imminent ban on stag hunting is the first shot in a wider war on “rural traditions”, hunting enthusiasts have warned.

Thu, 06 Sep, 2007