At each other’s throats over bloodsports
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.
It is a perverse irony that Irish shooting and hunting interests are now at each other’s throats over the involvement of the Countryside Alliance in the promotion of bloodsports in Ireland. It is well-documented that within Ireland’s bloodsports community there is a culture of disharmony and distrust among dedicated animal abusers.
Given that Irish bloodsports followers have accepted they cannot win the hearts and minds of the Irish public on the issue of killing animals for fun, one can ask will the involvement of the Countryside Alliance change the Irish public view on bloodsports? An animal abuser is an animal abuser regardless of its postcode-specific accent.
There is no place in modern Ireland for so called “fieldsports” which cause unnecessary suffering to animals each year.
Hunting is a cruel form of human behaviour that should be abandoned.
John Tierney,
Campaigns Director,
Association of Hunt Saboteurs
PO Box 4734,
Dublin 1.
