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ACTION ALERTS – ISSUE 1 2009
Published by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports. For campaign news, updates andmore action alerts, please visit our website atwww.banbloodsports.com
Buy & Sell urged to stop listing hunting dogs
Buy & Sell newspaper has been asked to stop listing adverts for Patterdale terriers. The callfollows a Sunday Times report last month which revealed that some badger baiters are usingthe publication to advertise dogs used in the illegal activity. Buy & Sell has also been askedby the Irish Council Against Blood Sports to stop listing coursing dogs.URGENT ACTION ALERT - SAMPLE LETTER
B&S Ltd, Buy and Sell House, Argyle Square, Donnybrook, Dublin 4Tel: +353 (0)1 608 0700. Fax: +353 (0)1 608 0770. Email: info@buyandsell.ieDear Buy & Sell.I am writing to appeal to you to please stop accepting advertisements for Patterdale terriers. Asrevealed in the Sunday Times in February, these dogs are used to viciously attack and kill wildlife,including foxes and badgers. The Times report revealed how a man who advertised Patterdales inBuy & Sell admitted his involvement in the illegal blood sport of badger baiting and that he dug out abadger sett containing a nursing mother and sent his dog in to kill one of the cubs.I also urge you to stop accepting adverts for "coursing dogs" due to the horrendous injuries caused toIrish Hares during coursing. Thank you. I look forward to your positive response.Yours sincerely,[Name/Location]
ICABS renews appeal for Animal Crime Unit
Please join the ICABS appeal to the Gardai to establish a special unit to tackle illegal bloodsports like cockfighting, badger baiting and dog fighting. In a letter to Garda Commissioner,Fachtna Murphy, we said that such a unit could greatly alleviate animal cruelty.
Please send the following message to the Garda Commissioner at Garda Headquarters, Phoenixpark, Dublin 8. Tel: 01 666 0000 Email: Commissioner@garda.ie, info@justice.ie Dear Commissioner Murphy. I support the Irish Council Against Blood Sports' call on you to establisha special unit to tackle crimes against animals. There is much cruelty to animals across Ireland andthere is an urgent need for a high profile animal unit to be set up to deal with this.
 
Urge the Green party to ban blood sports
In its pre-election manifesto, the Green Party made a historic pledge to ban blood sports if they succeeded in getting into government. With two Ministers and a Minister of State now inposition, the Green Party is today firmly in government. Please join us in urging the GreenParty to honour its promise to bring hare coursing, carted deer hunting, fox hunting and minkhunting to an end in Ireland.ACTION ALERT - SAMPLE LETTERPlease urge the six Green Party TDs to stand firm on their pledge to protect Irish animals fromthe terrible cruelty of blood sports.Minister John Gormley
, Minister for the Environment. Tel: 01 888 2403. Email: minister@environ.ie
Minister Eamon Ryan, TD
, Minister of the Department of CommunicationsTel: 01 6183097. Email:eamon.ryan@oireachtas.ie
Trevor Sargent TD
, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture. Tel: 01 6183465. Email:tsargent@greenparty.ie
Ciaran Cuffe, TD
. Tel: 01 6183082. Email: ciaran@ciarancuffe.com
Mary White, TD
. Tel: 059 9773184. Email: marywhitetd@gmail.com
Paul Gogarty TD
. Tel: 01 6183022. Email: pgogarty@oireachtas.ieDear Minister / Deputy,I am writing to urge the Green Party to please honour its pre-election promise to ban blood sports inIreland. The Irish animals so cruelly abused and killed in our countryside are depending on your commitment to bring blood sports to an end.As a first step, I appeal to you to please stop giving licences to the Irish Coursing Club and the WardUnion deer hunt. Your historic move will be widely welcomed across Ireland and the world.Thank you. I look forward to your positive response.[Name/Location]
Please become a supporter of ICABS
The Irish Council Against Blood Sports relies entirely on your generosity to continue our campaigning for an end to blood sport cruelty. Please become a supporter of ICABS today.Annual rates are just 15 Euro (Individual), 20 Euro (Family) and 8 Euro (Unwaged).
Download a subscription form at www.banbloodsports.com/subsform.htm or simply send a cheque(made payable to the Irish Council Against Blood Sports) along with your name and address toICABS, PO Box 88, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, Ireland. You can also become a supporter or make adonation by using your paypal account or credit card. Please visit www.banbloodsports.com and clickon the "Shop" button. Thank you.
 
Sinn Fein backs blood sports ban
Delegates at Sinn Fein's 2009 Ardfheis have voted in favour of a motion calling “for a total banon all blood sports, including hare coursing and fox hunting”. The motion was presented byOgra Shinn Fein who highlighted the animal cruelty involved.ACTION ALERT - SAMPLE LETTER
Sinn Fein, 44 Parnell Square, Dublin 1Tel: (353) 1 8726100/8726932. Fax: (353) 1 8733441. Email:sfadmin@eircom.netTo whom it concerns:I am writing to welcome the news that delegates at the 2009 Sinn Fein Ardfheis backed an OgraShinn Fein motion calling "for a total ban on all blood sports, including hare coursing and foxhunting". As one of the majority of Irish citizens who want fox hunting, hare coursing and all bloodsports ended, I call on your party to push for a ban on this appalling cruelty to be included in the newAnimal Health and Welfare Bill which is currently being drafted in the Department of Agriculture.Thank you. I look forward to your positive reply.Yours sincerely,[Name/Location]
NPWS engaged in cowardly lamping slaughter 
ICABS was disgusted to learn that the Department of the Environment's National Parks andWildlife Service division is engaged in "lamping" deer. This cowardly assault on the speciesinvolves shining a bright light into the eyes of deer, dazzling them and shooting them dead.
These latest deer killing revelations come just months after it was announced that Minister Gormleyhad opened a year-long open season on the tiny Muntjac deer.
ACTION ALERT
A Department of the Environment spokesman claimed that "lamping was a widely accepted practice".If you disagree and find lamping unacceptable, please lodge a complaint with Environment Minister,John Gormley.Minister John Gormley, Department of the Environment, Custom House, Dublin 1.Tel: 01 888 2403. Fax: 01 878 8640. Email: minister@environ.ie CC: info@greenparty.ie
Kilkenny People connected to hare coursing event
At the Johnstown/Urlingford coursing meet in November 2008, one of the events was theKilkenny People Cup (involving 32 greyhounds chasing hares).
Please send the message "Kilkenny People - Disassociate from cruel coursing" to Brian Keyes,Editor, Kilkenny People, 34 High Street, Kilkenny. Tel : 056-7791046. Fax : 056-7723533. Email:editor@kilkennypeople.ie
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