We don’t want fox hunts on our farms

In recent weeks articles have appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines that seem to glorify fox hunting, an activity that involves people riding roughshod over the rights and livelihoods of farmers.

I would remind the writers of such pieces that breaking and entering and vandalising anybody’s property — activities associated with fox hunting — is a criminal offence.

A farmer I know has still not been paid for the loss of his pedigree herd of sheep that were destroyed following the local fox hunts incursion. The loss of this herd has been valued at over €30,000 by his local auctioneer and I can publish this valuation on request.