Rabbitte may be able to pull off the hat trick
With Labour riding high in the opinion polls, there is even talk of a socialist, animal-loving Taoiseach taking the reins of power within a few years.
For decades, compassionate Irish people have campaigned for a ban on those primeval savageries: coursing, in which hares are set up as bait for greyhounds; fox hunting, which involves the hounding to exhaustion; and death of wild dogs by snobs dressed as circus clowns; the infliction of death and injury on our majestic stags; and the ritual slaughter of so-called driven shoots, in which pheasants are blown away at point blank range by geriatric apaches.
