Hare hit hard and greyhound crashes at Limerick coursing meet HD

More sickening video footage captured by the Irish Council Against Bloodsports at the Ardpatrick and Kilfinane in County Limerick coursing meeting on Saturday. Our footage shows a hare desperately trying to escape from greyhounds before being hit hard and knocked sideways. The other greyhound can be seen smashing heavily into a barrier at the side of the field. Additional footage captured by ICABS shows a hare suffering a severe mauling at the County Limerick coursing meeting https://www.facebook.com/banbloodsports/videos/1131972160251674/ Once again, we say shame on Minister Heather Humphreys and shame on the National Parks and Wildlife Service for facilitating this disgusting animal cruelty through their annual licences. They are aware of the ongoing suffering of hares - creatures they should be working to protect - but they are refusing to stop it. Instead of acting on the wishes of the majority who want this deplorable bloodsport outlawed, they prefer to pander to those who consider it entertaining to watch animals running for their lives and bet on the outcome. This latest highlighted mauling follows similar incidents filmed at coursing meetings in Loughrea and Ballingar in recent weeks - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkXOvbUPNNg1KdCXIhJwE_YQELz8SOX0 ICABS is renewing an appeal to the government to show compassion for the Irish Hare and do the right thing by banning coursing. We are again contacting the 114 TDs who shamefully lined up in Dail Eireann in June to vote AGAINST a ban on hare coursing and asking them to watch the videos and pledge to support a ban at the next voting opportunity. Hare coursing must be ended in Ireland. Please join us as we redouble our efforts to push for a long overdue ban. Send the email below, sign and share the petitions, call the Ministers and contact your local TDs. Thank you. ACTION ALERT Express your support for a ban on coursing. Sign and share our petitions Ireland: Ban cruel hare coursing https://www.change.org/p/ireland-ban-cruel-hare-coursing Ban Blood Sports in Ireland https://www.change.org/petitions/ban-blood-sports-in-ireland Email "BAN HARE COURSING NOW" TO Heather.Humphreys@oireachtas.ie, ministers.office@ahg.gov.ie, taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie, wildlifelicence@ahg.gov.ie, Gerry.Leckey@ahg.gov.ie, michael.creed@oir.ie Leave a comment on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/heather.humphreysfg https://www.facebook.com/endakennyofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/michaelcreedtd/ Tel: +353 (0)1-631 3802 or (01) 631 3800 (Heather Humphreys) Tel: +353 (0)1-6194020 (Enda Kenny) Tel: +353 (0)1-607 2000 (Michael Creed) Contact all your local TDs now. Demand that they urgently push for a ban on hare coursing and all bloodsports. Visit the Oireachtas website for names of TDs and their email addresses http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=32&disp=mem Write to your TDs at: Dail Eireann, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-618 3000 or