Typical of the antis, theyâve strong views against this sort of thing yet they donât watch the programme and theyâve never been to either a hunt or a coursing meeting. Not speaking from a position of ignorance then. 
Henry McKean in the Evening Herald
Fox hunting has been popular in Ireland for centuries and is part of the fabric of Irish country life. I visited the Laois Hunt kennels and saw hounds with a direct blood line back to England for 400 years.
English colonial rule in places where this deviant pursuit is practiced is over, why donât you go home you Tory inbreds
those cunts should have been burnt out of Laois decades ago.
Apologies mate that Munster Battalions couldnât find the time to get up there and do it for you.
We were left to our own devices when the invaders overpowered us, one county against the Empire and all that. Thanks for thinking of us all the same. Shur we got some nice buildings out of it at least :huh:
THEY are seething that the great âexposĂ©â of field sports has backfired badly.
Where are you reading this?
the pro lobby came across well bar the lads with the blacked out gate in the coursing and the loo laa who felt that foxes had no brains. at a guess the fox is not the one without the brain in that case.
i see no value at all in the stag hunt thing and fine gael would be morons to reintroduce it but if they set their faces against banning coursing and fox hunting thus drawing the line in the sand there thats probably the best bet.
didnt think the antis came across all that bad. they are entitled to their opinion and seemed harmless enough
This is no place for a balanced debate, you are either a useless crusty cunt or not.
I believe the reason he wasnât admitted to that coursing meeting was because he had been seen with the antiâs so it was assumed he was one of âthemâ. Antiâs in the past had caused all sorts of trouble at Edenderry, including putting broken glass onto the coursing field, so Iâd say they werenât taking any chance by letting him in.
That is a senseless slaughter of a noble beast, WTB. Iâm appalled at that.
Took the terriers on a walk yesterday evening. Rose a hare on the way and that was the end of the walk. The two terriers were off into the undergrowth for the bones of 20 minutes, eventually they got tired and continued on our way, only to get to the otherside of the bushes and there was the hare again. Off they went and I was another 30 minutes before one of them would come back to me, had to leave the mongrel terrier there in the finish cause I was sick of waiting for her. She arrived home an hour later destroyed in muck.
I came across another hare last week in a different spot and he was without a doubt the biggest hare Iâve ever seen. He looked over 2ft tall.
The hares are everywhere this weather, I saw one grazing on flowers on a busy roundabout the other day without a care in the world.
Iâve been looking all around for hares for the dogs and canât find them and you find them in abundance when you donât want themâŠ
Animals should not be described as âverminâ, âpestsâ or even âpetsâ, animal ethicists have decided.
Academics say that traditional words used to characterise animals like âbeastsâ and âcrittersâ are derogatory and should be replaced.
They say words like âpestsâ and âverminâ should be dropped altogether, and âpetsâ replaced by âcompanion animalsâ.
âFree ranging animalâ: Rats should not be called vermin because the term is derogatory, according to the editors of the Journal of Animal Ethics
âFree ranging animalâ: Rats should not be called vermin because the term is derogatory, according to the editors of the Journal of Animal Ethics
âWild animalsâ should be termed âfree living or free ranging animalsâ they argue, because âwildnessâ is too close to âuncivilisedâ.
The call for a new âanimal languageâ has been made by the editors of a new academic journal, the Journal of Animal Ethics, published this month for the first time by the University of Illinois Press.
They said: 'Despite its prevalence, âpetsâ is surely a derogatory term both of the animals concerned and their human carers.
'Again the word âownersâ, whilst technically correct in law, harks back to a previous age when animals were regarded as just that: property, machines or things to use without moral constraint.â
But their semantic zeal does not end with manâs best friends. They also argue for a new understanding of animals in their natural habitat.
âIn addition, we invite authors to use the words âfree-livingâ, âfree-rangingâ or âfree-roamingâ rather than âwild animalsâ,â they said.
âFor most, âwildnessâ is synonymous with uncivilised, unrestrained, barbarous existence. There is an obvious prejudgment here that should be avoided.â
The Journal of Animal Ethics has been launched with the goal of widening international debate about the moral status of animals.
The editors claim that the change in vocabulary is essential to updating our understanding of the relationship between humans and the natural world.
:lol:
Sooner we get a spilling of rain the better, next years Derby and Oaks winners need a hunt.
On other matters rural, great to hear plenty of cock pheasants crowing these days, wjile fox numbers are high, the can be sorted.