Rural Life
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, James Browne has said he has no plans to withdraw current licences for hare lamping.
The ISPCA have detailed the number of hares that were captured from the wild and subjected to being coursed during the 23/24 season.
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue said the department is "aware" cruelty to hares took place last month.
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has been urged to not issue any licences for the upcoming hare coursing season.
A motion seeking to ban hare coursing brought by two Green Party members of Cork County Council has been heavily defeated today
A number of calls have been made in the Dáil recently for the Irish Coursing Club's hare-coursing licence application to be refused
A protest involving a "variety of animal-protection groups" will take place this Sunday at the National Hare Coursing Festival
A Galway coursing club had its hare-netting licence "indefinitely" suspended last month following the death of three hares
An open-coursing event took place in a 'rabbit haemmorhagic disease (RHD2) virus-restriction zone' in 2020 but no legal breach occurred
Agri Politics
The move to suspend point-to-point racing and hare coursing is "an unjustified attack on livelihoods in rural Ireland" Verona Murphy says.
The ICC has lost its High Court challenge against the government decision to exclude coursing from being permitted under Level 5.
The ICC has brought a High Court challenge against the government decision to exclude coursing under Level 5 restrictions.
Deputy Jackie Cahill has called for track bookmakers and members of the coursing community to be provided with financial supports.
The ICC said it is "unaware of any objective, proportionate reasons as to why other comparable activities are permitted and coursing is not".
Five people have been arrested for hare coursing following an incident which involved a police chase and an air support helicopter.
The Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports has appealed to the government to reject calls to allow hare coursing meetings continue.
Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae has asked for hare coursing licences that were granted before Level 5 to be revalidated from today.
Environment
A conviction and suspended prison sentence was handed down to a defendant for illegally hunting a hare with dogs in Co. Wexford last year.
Michael Healy-Rae has said he will not only oppose the new bill that seeks to ban hare coursing in Ireland, but also "all the propaganda".
"This is a cruel, barbaric and outdated practice," according to TD Paul Murphy, who has introduced a bill in a bid to prohibit hare coursing.
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has responded to the recent call by the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) for a ban on hare coursing.
The Irish Wildlife Trust is calling on Minister of State Malcolm Noonan not to issue licences for "cruel" hare coursing.
Two men have been prosecuted and convicted of illegal hare hunting with lurcher dogs at Tullamore District Court.
