I refer to the situation where innocent sheep are reared by farmers as food for profit.

Halloween and bonfire season will be here later this month. I would like to ask people to carefully check their bonfires before they are lit as small animals like hedgehogs, slow worms, toads/frogs and mice may be living and hibernating in your wood pile and could be burnt alive.

As horse racing pundits in the UK give lip service to the horse killings at the Grand National we do not hear many racing supporters condemning the move by the Irish Government to supply China with Irish horses.

WITH all of the negative news in the media, World Vegan Day on November 1 is an example of an ever-increasing group of people who do their utmost to live compassionate lifestyles and to have a light footprint on the earth’s resources.

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 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.

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.

AS the Christmas season approaches, many Irish people will be getting ready to order their dead birds and cuts of dead flesh for the dinner table.

Activists have called on the Government to end its support of the greyhound industry.

HAVING seen the disturbing and cruel footage of farm workers stuffing live birds into sacks for killing in Asia, I feel man will never learn.

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