Drag coursing the better of two evils

RECENTLY, the Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism, John O’Donoghue, informed an Irish animal welfare organisation that his officials raised the issue of introducing drag coursing with the Irish Coursing Club, but were told that “coursing greyhounds would not follow a drag” and that “drag coursing would be unpopular“.

The Association of Hunt Saboteurs call upon Mr O'Donoghue to take on board that the vast majority of Irish people (80% when last independently surveyed), want a total ban on the use of live hares for coursing.

So drag coursing (where a mechanical lure is used instead of a live hare) may be "unpopular" amongst the tiny diehard minority who engage in this barbaric and outdated animal abuse, but it most certainly would be very popular with the Irish public.