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.

In one bloodsport, the gentle hare — a creature that threatens nobody and that graces our natural environment — is snatched from our countryside, held in captivity, and then set up as live bait to be terrorised for human amusement.

Many hares are mauled, forcibly struck, or tossed into the air like playthings despite the muzzling of greyhounds and the brittle-boned creatures have to be killed (“dispatched”) as a result.