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.

But the latest row between the two sides has provoked even more bitterness than usual.

The row centres upon events of November 15 last. On the day in question, a woman working with a real estate agency in Meath emailed a number of TDs seeking their support for the Ward Union Hunt, which is based in the same county.