Place: Callan Co

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An option for those contemplating suicide
Fox hunting is cruel and disruptive of rural life
Protect Irish hare from from well-fed savages
Tiananmen anniversary worth remembering
Euro success boost for ending blood sports
Danes treat animals far better than the Irish

There has been a huge outcry against the killing of a giraffe at Copenhagen zoo, and the feeding of its carcass to lions, while people watched.

Thu, 20 Feb, 2014

Ban coursing and protect endangered hare

While welcoming Minister Deenihan’s ban on the hunting of Kerry red deer and the curlew, I would urge him to go a step further, because this is the same minister who a few months ago issued a licence permitting the capture of thousands of hares for live coursing events.

Fri, 26 Oct, 2012

A journalist who used the truth to set us free

MARY Raftery was a remarkable person. She shone a light into the hidden past of Ireland, exposing the horrors of the industrial schools and laying bare a crime against humanity for long covered up and denied.

Thu, 12 Jan, 2012

Drag hunting an ideal alternative to bloody pursuit

YOUR festive picture of a St Stephen’s Day fox hunt calls to mind Oscar Wilde’s reference to this bloodsport as the “unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable”.

Fri, 30 Dec, 2011

Hunting them out

I AM bemused by the fact that all those Fianna Fáil TDs who objected so strongly to having to vote for a ban on stag hunting last summer didn’t undergo any crisis of conscience over punishing the blind, the disabled, family carers, low-paid workers and social welfare recipients in the budget.

Mon, 13 Dec, 2010

A Nobel soul takes on the dictators of a fast-rising superpower

THE awarding of the Nobel Peace prize to a brave Chinese human rights campaigner will hopefully aid the process of ridding China of the cruel and bloody dictatorship that has ruled the country for decades.

Mon, 18 Oct, 2010

Cowen & Co should enjoy Fianna Fáil sensibly

THE furore over the Taoiseach’s radio interview should make us very grateful that the Green party is in government with Fianna Fáil.

Thu, 16 Sep, 2010

Follow Catalonia and ban shameful blood sport

THE Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports (CACS), welcomes the historic decision by the parliament of Spain’s Catalonian region to ban bull fighting.

Tue, 03 Aug, 2010

Shame of shocking mental healthcare system

RTÉ’s Primetime last Tuesday turned the spotlight on conditions in some of our psychiatric hospitals.

Mon, 15 Feb, 2010

Greens have chance to finally ban bloodsports

I HOPE the Greens push hard in the Programme for Government negotiations for the abolition of both hare coursing and carted stag hunting.

Sat, 03 Oct, 2009

Variety club beats recession blues

WITH the nation in the grip of recession, and misery stamped on so many lives, how refreshing it was to find a haven of joy, talent, celebration and musical enchantment in the midst of economic doom and gloom.

Tue, 21 Apr, 2009

Bronze hares have a message for politicians

I VISITED Dublin the other day to view those much hyped monumental hare sculptures.

Thu, 06 Jul, 2006

Why salute one generation of rebels and condemn another?

THE noted critic of militant republicanism, Tom Carew, would have us believe that the almost 30 years of strife in the North was just one very long crime wave — “organised serial mass murder”, he calls it (Irish Examiner letters, May 11).

Mon, 29 May, 2006

Fight drugs and alcohol ruthlessly

WITH drugs ravaging a large section of our population, is it not about time that we had a hard-hitting State-sponsored TV and print media campaign against this creeping horror?

Mon, 01 May, 2006

Tough action needed to tackle vandalism

THE scourge of vandalism was visited on Callan, Co Kilkenny, a week ago when a children's playground was destroyed by thugs.

Tue, 14 Mar, 2006

Take the gun out of Irish tourism

IT’S that time of year again. The season when tourist shooters — mainly French and Italian — descend on our countryside like a plague of locusts.

Thu, 29 Dec, 2005

When the hounds turn on sheep, we have a woolly Grand National

I AM surprised that those demanding an organised cull of deer on road safety grounds appear oblivious to the equal menace to life and limb posed by carted stag hunting.

Mon, 29 Aug, 2005

Time to put an end to the savage cruelty of cub hunting

THE Circuit Court judge in a recent dog fighting case slammed the “savage and sadistic cruelty” of the practice before passing sentence on the fight organisers.

Mon, 08 Aug, 2005

Tally-ho cards present false image

’TIS the season to be jolly... and to be cruel. Christmas cards again depict fox, hare and stag-hunting as relics of auld decency.

Thu, 23 Dec, 2004

When will foxhunters get the message?

AS the current foxhunting season kicked off, record numbers of hunt ban notices appeared in provincial newspapers nationwide.

Mon, 06 Dec, 2004

Seal killers hide behind a wall of silence

THE ruthless killers of the Blasket island seals have a powerful advantage in their efforts to evade justice — a conspiracy of silence.

Tue, 09 Nov, 2004

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