Protect Irish hare from from well-fed savages

The greyhound industry has a serious PR problem, but it was never without its critics. Brendan Behan made reference to it in Confessions of an Irish Rebel: “Track racing is too dull and coursing is too cruel. 

I did go coursing betimes for the screams of the hares gave me the excuse to stop in the tent drinking whiskey for to drown the noise.”

Because the dogs are now muzzled, hares do not scream as loudly or as often, but their plight remains a sad and shameful one. We now see hares being mauled, struck, tossed into the air, or pinned down by their pursuers and later dying of their injuries — if not put out of their misery by the official club dispatchers.