If you are going voting on Friday.

Grizzly 45

As usual our friends over on ICABS have put together a handy reference guide to your local hopefuls and MEPS pro or anti attitude to fieldsports.:P

www.banbloodsports.com
Local and European Elections 2014: Candidates and Animal Issues [ header]

ormondprop

Opposition to the Government's hunting proposals was also expressed at last month's meeting of North Tipperary Co Council, where local councillors spoke of the importance of hunting in the county...Cllr Eddie Moran (Ind) said the hunts generate employment and trade in North Tipperary. From an article in the Nenagh Guardian, 10th July 2010.

I find this funny seeing as he opposed the opening of the devilsbit shooting centre which would also create employment

Other than that it's a great find

Grizzly 45

Gotta admit that his surname does befit him.:rolleyes:

laoch na mona

to be fair some canidates on there only did stuff like condemn cock fighting

Dian Cecht

laoch na mona wrote: »

to be fair some canidates on there only did stuff like condemn cock fighting

Which is illegal so do they feel the need to mention it or worse "lump it in with" what honest, law abiding shooters are doing when they are doing NOTHING illegal

Dian Cecht

ormondprop wrote: »

I find this funny seeing as he opposed the opening of the devilsbit shooting centre which would also create employment

Other than that it's a great find

He's a politician (I have other descriptions bit I'd get banned here if I post 'em ) He'll tell whoever he's talking to what they want to hear. The secret is to have it in print and when he's telling lies, someone produce it Then they get memory loss or simply lie :rolleyes:

laoch na mona

Dian Cecht wrote: »

Which is illegal so do they feel the need to mention it or worse "lump it in with" what honest, law abiding shooters are doing when they are doing NOTHING illegal

well thats the person who put the website together's problem, I'm just saying being on their does not mean the person is anti hunting

Dian Cecht

laoch na mona wrote: »

well thats the person who put the website together's problem, I'm just saying being on their does not mean the person is anti hunting

I'm against cock fighting, dog fighting, badger baiting, robbing banks and other things but I don't feel the need to mention it when discussing legal activities.

laoch na mona

Dian Cecht wrote: »

I'm against cock fighting, dog fighting, badger baiting, robbing banks and other things but I don't feel the need to mention it when discussing legal activities.

clearly the admin of the site doesn't share your distinction, I'm not agree or disagreeing just saying the site is not that well put together

Dian Cecht

laoch na mona wrote: »

clearly the admin of the site doesn't share your distinction, I'm not agree or disagreeing just saying the site is not that well put together

It's there for one reason, to pressure, intimidate & threaten people into thinking the same way they do.

laoch na mona

Dian Cecht wrote: »

It's there for one reason, to pressure, intimidate & threaten people into thinking the same way they do.

possibly or it is also possible that they define bloodsports as both legal and illegal activities, people are entitled to there views

Sparks

Might well make a difference from the point of view of the European elections (though personally I'd be more worried about the digital privacy stuff - a case of shooting the nearest crocodile first); but in terms of the local elections, it might be better to keep in mind the actual powers of a local councillor and what they can and can't actually do:

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/05/21/what-can-a-councillor-do-for-you

TriggerPL

Ming for Europe !! Any man that cuts his bog at 2 in the morning deserves a vote

Sparks

TriggerPL wrote: »

Ming for Europe !! Any man that cuts his bog at 2 in the morning deserves a vote

<insert joke here about how it'd be nice if he'd shower after cutting the bog before going to the Dail>

Also wanted to ban fur farming in recent legislation.

yubabill1

Was going to vote for aidan mullins in Laois, but this has changed my mind. Will find another contra-type to register my protest wrt gov't performance (not that I voted for any of them).

laoch na mona

Sparks wrote: »

<insert joke here about how it'd be nice if he'd shower after cutting the bog before going to the Dail>

Also wanted to ban fur farming in recent legislation.

the turf stuff puts me off him but banning fur farming would get him a prefrence at least

Sparks

laoch na mona wrote: »

the turf stuff puts me off him but banning fur farming would get him a prefrence at least

I never "got" the point of fur myself, I prefer leather; but anyone who'll ban fur farming on the grounds of cruelty because the animals are kept caged strikes me as a person who's never met a mink. Or knows anything about them either. And kindof lumps themselves in with the idiots who'll release thousands of the things from a fur farm into the countryside to devastate the local ecosystems, and then call for a fur farming ban because the fur farmer didn't stop them from breaking the law to release the mink in the first place.

I get that the guy wants to be different, to shake things up and all that - but honestly, all I've ever seen him do is take a Dail that's a joke and turn it into a mockery. And I don't thank him much for that.

laoch na mona

Sparks wrote: »

I never "got" the point of fur myself, I prefer leather; but anyone who'll ban fur farming on the grounds of cruelty because the animals are kept caged strikes me as a person who's never met a mink. Or knows anything about them either. And kindof lumps themselves in with the idiots who'll release thousands of the things from a fur farm into the countryside to devastate the local ecosystems, and then call for a fur farming ban because the fur farmer didn't stop them from breaking the law to release the mink in the first place.

I get that the guy wants to be different, to shake things up and all that - but honestly, all I've ever seen him do is take a Dail that's a joke and turn it into a mockery. And I don't thank him much for that.

of course those releasing animals from farms are idiots but the farming process is cruel and I just don't like fur to me its to much of a status thing

Dian Cecht

laoch na mona wrote: »

people are entitled to there views

Something they don't believe in it seems :rolleyes:

Dian Cecht

laoch na mona wrote: »

I just don't like fur to me its to much of a status thing

I refer you to your comment about people & their opinions? I assume this includes others right to wear fur if they want to?

Grizzly 45

laoch na mona wrote: »

of course those releasing animals from farms are idiots but the farming process is cruel and I just don't like fur to me its to much of a status thing

Its also MUCH warmer and durable than oil made global warming plastic fibers.:D
Never could understand these numpties that throw paint on someones fur coat,all they are going to do is buy another one with the insurance and another bunch of very nasty bad temperd rodents are going to get theirs ,to be made into coats or renderd down into mink oil.One of the best leather water proofs out there still.

laoch na mona

Dian Cecht wrote: »

I refer you to your comment about people & their opinions? I assume this includes others right to wear fur if they want to?

ya and I'm allowed to disagree with it

dogcityroller

I ll not be voting for anybody . Politicians have to be the most self righteous greedy bastards on the face of the earth.

Dian Cecht

laoch na mona wrote: »

ya and I'm allowed to disagree with it

No problem with ya disagreeing with it. It's HOW ya do it that counts As we all know some who disagree do tend to do it to the extreme, not to mention illegally

Bushwack

dogcityroller wrote: »

I ll not be voting for anybody . Politicians have to be the most self righteous greedy bastards on the face of the earth.

True,but you can show you disapprove by voting.