Rural Life
ISPCA: Over 3,000 hares were coursed during the '23/'24 season
The Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) have detailed the number of hares that were captured from...
Hare Coursing
Rural Life
DAFM 'aware' of reports of cruelty to hares
TDs have recently raised issues in the Dáil surrounding hare coursing, and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie...
Rural Life
Minister urged to not issue licences for hare coursing season
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien has been urged not to issue any licences for the upcoming...
Rural Life
Councillors oppose Green Party motion seeking hare coursing ban
Members of Cork County Council have today (Monday, January 9) strongly rejected a Green Party motion seeking to ban hare...
Rural Life
Minister called on to refuse hare-coursing licence application
A number of calls have been made in the Dáil recently for the Irish Coursing Club’s hare-coursing licence application for the upcoming...
Rural Life
Protesters to target national hare-coursing event in Clonmel
A protest involving a “variety of animal-protection groups” will take place this Sunday (February 6) at the National Hare Coursing...
Rural Life
Investigation ongoing as hare-netting licence suspended
An investigation is ongoing into the death of a number of hares at a recent Galway coursing meeting. Loughrea Coursing...
Rural Life
Open coursing took place in 'RHD2 virus-restriction zone'
An open coursing event took place in a ‘rabbit haemmorhagic disease (RHD2) virus-restriction zone’ in 2020 but no legal breach...
Agri Politics
Hunt industry 'in crisis' after 'unjustified attack on livelihoods in rural Ireland'
The government’s decision to suspend point-to-point racing and hare coursing while failing to provide supports to those affected has been...
Rural Life
'Legal body blow' for hare coursing as ICC loses High Court challenge
The Irish Coursing Club (ICC) has today (Monday, January 25) lost its High Court challenge against the government decision to...
Rural Life
ICC brings High Court challenge against government decision to exclude coursing in Level 5
The Irish Coursing Club (ICC) has brought a High Court challenge against the government decision to exclude coursing from being...
Rural Life
Cahill requests that coursing industry be provided with financial support
Deputy Jackie Cahill has called for track bookmakers and members of the coursing community that have been adversely affected by Covid-19...
Rural Life
Level 5: 'We are left with the unanswered question as to why coursing was removed'
The Irish Coursing Club (ICC) has said it is “unaware of any objective, proportionate reasons as to why other comparable...
Rural Life
Hare coursers arrested following chase involving helicopter
Five people have been arrested for hare coursing following an incident which involved a police chase and an air support...
Rural Life
'It would be an outrage' if coursing is exempted from Level 5 restrictions
The Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports has appealed to the government to reject calls from TDs Michael Healy-Rae...
Rural Life
Hare coursing: Licences that were issued 'should be revalidated from today'
Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae has asked for hare coursing licences that were granted before Level 5 to be revalidated from...
Environment
Conviction and suspended sentence handed down for illegal hare hunting
A conviction and suspended prison sentence was handed down to a defendant for illegally hunting a hare with dogs in...
Rural Life
Healy-Rae: Bill to ban hare coursing 'nothing more than a publicity-seeking stunt'
Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae has said he will not only oppose RISE TD Paul Murphy’s new bill that seeks to...