ICABS push for bill to ban hare coursing

Sparks

Carl Sagan had a similar line on it in the same way that the northbound and southbound sides of the M50 have similar lines

But yeah, that letter... I've read some dumb stuff in the letters page over the last few decades, but that one is, completely without exaggeration or hyperbole, the daftest thing I've ever read published there.

Grizzly 45

terminator2 wrote: »

they never knocked on my door either , let them produce this survey......

You will find it was done around the mid 1970s.....:rolleyes::D

Gone as mad as a bag of hammers he has..
Wonder how you type in a nut jacket up in the puzzle factory??
Does he use his nose on the keyboard or his toes??
One episode too many of Falling Skies or rerun of Predator methinks.

Sparks

Old Warick. wrote: »

RISE will be holding a rally at the game fair being held in Birr on the 26th of August. A big day for all fieldsports.

Oh, and the anti's have decided to have a protest in Dublin on the same day.

The Journal are covering the ARAN march here along with some lovely comments, like this one from John FitzGerald:

I believe there should be psychiatric intervention to find what makes hare coursing fans tick. I have seen them, whoop for joy and applaud as hares were terorised and savagely mauled by dogs. The exemption for hare coursing in the Aniimal Welfare Bill makes a mockery of what the Bill seeks to achieve. Feral cats need protection too, as at present these animals are being targeted by trigger-happy so-called “sportsmen”.

Worth taking a look and downvoting, I would have thought...

Grizzly 45

You mean our ol pal John Fitzgerald??;)
BTW there is a report this comment box there as well,with plenty of reasons to suggest it is an unfit comment.

Sparks

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

You mean our ol pal John Fitzgerald??;)

Cheers Grizz, got rather annoyed and typo'd

Sparks

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

You mean our ol pal John Fitzgerald??;)
BTW there is a report this comment box there as well,with plenty of reasons to suggest it is an unfit comment.

Our "old pal" is on a roll:

John Fitzgerald wrote:

Professional opinion polls have shown that a huge majority of the Irish people oppose hare coursing and similar cruel practises. Re “conservationon the ground”, I recall seeing an internet site a few months ago (since thankfully removed) called ” Make Friends with Guns”…it had loads of pictures of leering louts standing over row upon row of dead or dying animals and birds. Accompanying text gloated about this “conservation” work. Killing for kicks is conservation to some, as if non lethal means of population control did not exist. Re “court convictions”, I challenge Mark to spell out exactly who or what he is referring to. I do know of hare coursing fans and officials who have been convicted of offences, and people who have been convicted of gun-related crime. By contrast, the animal protection-anti blood sports movement in Ireland has a very good record. We don’t need to act outside the law, because we know that tide of history is againt the recreational killers of wildlife.

edit: Fair play to the Journal, they pulled that comment of his because it's defamatory.

dev110

John's comment was pulled!

Edit: Just say Sparks had his post edited

Sparks

dev110 wrote: »

John's comment was pulled!
Edit: Just say Sparks had his post edited

Yeah, the Journal are pretty good about that kind of thing - if someone posts a defamatory comment and you report it (assuming it does actually qualify as defamation under the act), they pull it pretty fast. They've pulled entire articles on ARAN in the past over that (turns out if you go through the article's comments, highlight any defamatory comments made - and there have been cases where the vast majority of comments are defamatory - they may well decide the article is more trouble than its worth and it gets pulled. Which is fair enough).

Sparks

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