Renua offers old hat on fox hunting

Lucinda Creighton’s recent call during a Dáil debate for fox hunting to be promoted as a tourist attraction, will surely have dismayed those who believed her earlier promise that, in government, Renua would enact compassionate social policies.

Of all the appalling cruelties humans inflict on animals, terrifying and killing them for the fun of it, must surely rank as one of the most loathsome. It is hardly surprising that every opinion poll on the issue of fox hunting carried out in this country has shown a clear majority of Irish people in favour of it being banned.

Yet, shamefully, successive Irish governments have shied away from ruffling the feathers of the well-healed minority who engage in this medieval barbarism, and in so doing have failed miserably to honour the wishes of the people they represent.