At each other’s throats over bloodsports

THE recent alignment of the National Association of Regional Game Councils (NARGC) and the UK-based Countryside Alliance has created the mother of all splits in Ireland’s bloodsports community.

Countryside Ireland, a national hunting-with-hounds organisation, is aghast that the NARGC, a national shooting organisation, has invited the Countryside Alliance into the Irish campaign to promote animal abuse wrapped up in a blanket of concern for the countryside.

Irish landowners who allow the hunt on their land are not going to take too kindly to the British way of running the hunting day.