New farmers’ group calls for foxhunt ban

IN RECENT weeks, there has been a lot of debate about foxhunting in this country in the light of the ban on it in Scotland and its impending abolition in the rest of Britain.

We farmers are trying to make a living from the land and we want nothing less than a total ban on foxhunting here.

The hunts make thousands of euro at our expense. They do this by inviting people to join at a cost of €500 all in to hunt with th em on other peoples' property, damaging land, crops, livestock and fences.