Ban Blood Sports

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Campaigning for an end to Ireland's cruel bloodsports (hare coursing, fox hunting, etc). We also support the international campaign for a ban on bullfighting.

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"[From a Wicklow constituent] A hunt passed through our area and the hounds entered our garden. They split apart and savaged our beloved little dog, Isabelle, killing her on our own property" - Jennifer Whitmore TD #Ireland #BanFoxHunting

A hare who was caught and mauled by greyhounds is carried away and put in a box. The Irish Government must ban hare coursing and give full protection to the Irish Hare Micheál Martin Simon Harris TD #BanHareCoursing

"Remarkable footage from inside an Irish slaughterhouse of what experts say are horses' identities being changed before entering the human food chain": Watch "Horses - Making a Killing" on the RTE Player or at #YouBetTheyDie

"Anybody want him for €2?" NO - Sad scene from Castleisland Mart where a doomed male calf from the dairy industry is rejected • "Bull calves don't produce milk and don't fatten well for beef so there's no market for them here" #Ireland #RTEInvestigates

"A sheep farmer in Cashel said many farming neighbours agree that the days of having large numbers of horses galloping through farmland in the wettest months of the year are long gone &amp; that fox hunting as a means of curtailing the population is a fallacy" - Jennifer Whitmore TD

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“I recommend that this bill be rejected”: Heather Humphreys TD (Fine Gael) ridiculously claiming that "the welfare of the hare is paramount" in cruel coursing &amp; calling for a rejection of a bill aimed at banning the bloodsport (June 2016) 👎 #PE25 #ARAS25

Fox hunter, fox shooter and Fine Gael Senator Paraic Brady sneering following the shameful rejection in Dail Eireann of a bill to ban cruel fox hunting, a bloodsport which most people in Ireland want outlawed #Ireland #AnimalCruelty #BanFoxHunting 🦊

⚠️🐰 The Irish Government must finally ban CRUEL hare coursing. Thousands of hares are netted from the countryside and forced to run for their lives from dogs. Most people in #Ireland want this bloodsport ended #Ireland #AnimalCruelty

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"I find it hard to understand how anybody could gain entertainment from [fox hunting]...That is not a sport. That is just an exercise in cruelty and barbarism" - Richard Boyd Barrett TD Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit - Solidarity) #BanFoxHunting 💚🦊

"Why are you on private property? Never come back. You are never welcome here. Get off our land" #BanFoxHunting

📢 "Shame on you. Shame on you" 📢 Well done to everyone who supported today's #BanFoxHunting protest in Abbeyleix, County Laois. The vast majority of people in Ireland want this cruel bloodsport stopped. Join calls for a ban in 2026 🦊 [Video: @NARACampaigns]

#Ireland #AnimalCruelty Shame on the Irish Government for allowing cruel hare coursing to continue. A ban on this bloodsport is long overdue. Retweet to tell Leo Varadkar Eamon Ryan Micheál Martin to #BanHareCoursing

Presidential election candidate Heather Humphreys has shamefully confirmed her support for cruel fox hunting. On the Pat Kenny show on Newstalk today, she was asked: "Do you support fox hunting?". Her response: "What I do support is rural pursuits." #Aras25 #Aras2025 🦊

Frantic scenes of horses being scattered, whipped and falling in a heap: Disturbing scenes from the now-closed Shannonside Foods slaughterhouse in #Ireland. Most of the horses killed at this hellhole were thoroughbreds used in racing Say NO to horse racing

Ruth Coppinger TD will introduce her Animal Health &amp; Welfare (Ban On Fox Hunting) Bill in Dail Eireann this Tuesday, 27 May 2025. Please contact all your local TDs and urge them to support the bill #Ireland #AnimalCruelty #BanFoxHunting 💚🦊

Greyhound carried into a knackery and shot dead. One of 1000s killed in Ireland every year because they're not fast enough. Tell @FiannaFailParty Fine Gael @SinnFeinIreland to support a ban on cruel greyhound racing #GeneralElection2024 #GeneralElection24

Fox hunting during the "Irish Famine" (An Gorta Mór) • "The Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association was established in 1845 during the Famine. While ordinary people were starving to death, there was aristocrats in red coats riding around on horseback, torturing animals to death"

Some of the shocking scenes of animal cruelty that will feature on "Horses: Making a Killing". Watch it this evening at 9.35pm on RTE1 TV or on the RTE Player #Ireland #AnimalCruelty #YouBetTheyDie #RTEInvestigates

"The farmer had previously been before the courts for animal cruelty offences. He was facing further charges when you, as a Minister, passed on a letter to the Dept of Agriculture raising concerns about his prosecution. Within days, the prosecution was dropped." #Aras25 #Aras2025

⚠️🐐 The use of a goat in #PuckFair breaches Ireland's Animal Health &amp; Welfare Act which makes it an offence of cruelty to cause unnecessary suffering (physical or mental) to an animal. Minister Charlie McConalogue must ensure there is no goat in #PuckFair2023

“I’m calling for a complete ban on fox hunting. It’s a cruel &amp; barbarous practice. It’s not sport and it really has no place in a modern society. Your TDs will vote on this on 17 December. Please contact them and tell them to ban fox hunting altogether" - Actor Pauline McLynn 🦊

782 horses with Irish passports were slaughtered in England last year. 538 were racing horses. At least 46% of these were just 5 years old or younger. They were not euthanised - they were stressfully transported and then slaughtered for meat #Cheltenham

Ireland: Ban Cruel Fox Hunting #Ireland #AnimalCruelty #SaveOurFoxes #BanFoxHunting

Two Laois men, Clifford Roe and Ian Fairbrother, have been convicted and fined for shooting rooks (protected). The prosecutions were taken under the Wildlife Act. Horrific footage, filmed by a local man, shows dead and dying rooks scattered around a field

"A sheep farmer in Cashel said many farming neighbours agree that the days of having large numbers of horses galloping through farmland in the wettest months of the year are long gone & that fox hunting as a means of curtailing the population is a fallacy" - Jennifer Whitmore TD

“I recommend that this bill be rejected”: Heather Humphreys TD (Fine Gael) ridiculously claiming that "the welfare of the hare is paramount" in cruel coursing & calling for a rejection of a bill aimed at banning the bloodsport (June 2016) 👎 #PE25 #ARAS25

Ruth Coppinger TD will introduce her Animal Health & Welfare (Ban On Fox Hunting) Bill in Dail Eireann this Tuesday, 27 May 2025. Please contact all your local TDs and urge them to support the bill #Ireland #AnimalCruelty #BanFoxHunting 💚🦊

⚠️🐐 The use of a goat in #PuckFair breaches Ireland's Animal Health & Welfare Act which makes it an offence of cruelty to cause unnecessary suffering (physical or mental) to an animal. Minister Charlie McConalogue must ensure there is no goat in #PuckFair2023

“I’m calling for a complete ban on fox hunting. It’s a cruel & barbarous practice. It’s not sport and it really has no place in a modern society. Your TDs will vote on this on 17 December. Please contact them and tell them to ban fox hunting altogether" - Actor Pauline McLynn 🦊