Thousands of hunting supporters join march in Ireland
Around 6,000 hunting supporters demonstrated outside the Irish Green Party’s conference on Saturday (27 March).
Ireland’s coalition government comprising Fiánna Fail and the Greens plans to make stag hunting illegal, meaning the end of Ireland’s only stag hunt — the Ward Union (news, 29 October 2009).
Pro-hunting group Rural Ireland Says Enough (RISE!), accuses the Greens of planning to ban fox-hunting and discriminating against other country sports.
RISE! spokesman Liam Cahill said: “The Greens’ agenda looks like it could split the coalition government. The rural agenda is now in the mainstream of Irish politics.”
This article was first published in Horse & Hound (1 April, ’10)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.