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Mary White Carlow Kilkenny – Greens No Support for Hunting or Coursing

Posted In: Hunting and Politics by admin

http://www.greenparty.ie/en/news/latest_news/some_people_tell_the_truth_and_tell_it_slant_we_tell_it_straight

Outside this hotel today we had a protest. As the only rural TD in this Party I want to say that we have done more for animal welfare than any other Party. People protesting today about the end of shooting and fishing are wrong. We are opposed to setting animal against animal – that is our national policy. But it is disingenuous to try and roll fishing and shooting into a campaign to protect Stag Hunting. We are not engaged in some salami slicing technique: stag hunting today, fishing tomorrow. Those who protest against the Green Party say that they know and respect the environment more than we do. Well if that’s the case they have only one Party to vote for. Us.

We protect the countryside
We protect the rural environment
We protect watercourses, streams, rivers and lakes
We protect SACs.

They want the countryside they need us.

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