Anti-coursing campaigners vow to fight on

ANTI-coursing campaigners have vowed to continue their fight despite the likelihood of their only political allies being voted out of the Dáil.

Anti-coursing campaigners vow to fight on

A group of up to 50 anti-blood sport protesters staged a low-key picket yesterday in Clonmel outside the venue for the final day of the annual National Coursing Meeting.

Organisers of the protest, which lasted for about two hours near the gates of Powerstown Park, said the Republic remains “the last outpost of this backwoods barbarism” now that hare coursing is banned in the North.

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