At the Powerstown Park racecourse.
In Clonmel, Co Tipperary.
John Fitzgerald tweetz:
As well as protesting OUTSIDE Powerstown Park racecourse, where the “festival” of hare coursing was held, some of us protested INSIDE the venue…
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Everything. As It Happens.
Why isn’t this barbarity banned already? Disgraceful. No doubt we’ll get some bullsh|te about rural Ireland again. Just like when the hunt dogs got killed by cars because they were running wild all over the countryside I suppose. ‘It never normally happens’. Yeah right.
Oh and Bodger your link to John Fitzgerald is incorrect. https://twitter.com/badharedays?lang=en
I was brought up going to coursing meetings. While its difficult to defend, the dogs are muzzled these days so, unlike fox hunting (where the object is to hunt and kill, rather than to race dogs) hares don’t get killed even if there are traumatised. In coursing meetings I went to in the pre-muzzle days, it was rare enough to see a dog catch a hare. Just to be clear, I’m not condoning it, just relating personal experiences. I doubt too many on here have been to a coursing meeting.
I have. Once. Never again.
The reason you are not justifying it is that no justification for it, none whatsoever. It is not part of any rural Irish culture. It is just sick and twisted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7aImalvLIE
I’ve been to Coppers back in the day so I can kinda relate.
Well, I’ve never been to a cock fight, either, but I would still want them banned if they were taking place in Tipp.
I feel the same about Clampers v Nigel.
They’ve been making me wear a muzzle since December.
Durty.
The dogs aren’t muzzled at open coursing though?
Hunt dogs getting killed by cars is a form of karma considering the pain those hounds inflict on hares and foxes.
The karma would be yer man in the stupid red jacket with the childish little trumpet being thrown off his horse.
shame on the anti-choice people forcing their views on others
While I abhor bloodsports of any kind. This numbers at this protest lends itself to a “careful now/down with this sort of thing” feel about it.
The pictures here show some protesters who got INSIDE the venue…that was a token protest. There were many more protesting outside, as you can see in this footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwD57v7mI4