More bad press for hunting

[Binkle&Flip]

Do you really know so little about the sport you seem to be so interested in ? Oh dear...

 

[JanetGeorge]

I do feel rather irked by the failure to discuss the actual report. Extremism of any kind is off putting, particularly when on any incident where hunts may have got it wrong, you blindly fail to look for the truth, which is not in the interests of the sport.

That's because there was NOTHING in the original report - other than evidence that the person making accusations (based on 2 stags in a trailer) knew absolutely NOTHING about hunting the carted stag. There has never been any secret about what the Ward Union does - hell, their website tells it all on the internet!

I have no idea if they are still hunting the carted stag or not. I know the NI Govt passed a ban - but when that ban became law I do not know. But if I was trying to prove that they are, I'd try and find a bit more evidence than 2 stags in a trailer!

 

[Fiagai]

Do you really know so little about the sport you seem to be so interested in ? Oh dear...
With regard to the point that only one stag is hunted, that is quite so, but 2 are often carted, the second one as a spare.

I am not up for debate about the rights and wrongs of stag hunting, I do feel rather irked by the failure to discuss the actual report. Extremism of any kind is off putting, particularly when on any incident where hunts may have got it wrong, you blindly fail to look for the truth, which is not in the interests of the sport.

HR ....It is not constructive to any discusion to jump in and make vague statements about the subject in general

If you have factual information relative to what went on this instance then that will be beneficial to - otherwise you are not contributing to the discussion that is ongoing


You didn't answer the question posed - and the name of the hunt in question is?

 

[Fiagai]

That's because there was NOTHING in the original report - other than evidence that the person making accusations (based on 2 stags in a trailer) knew absolutely NOTHING about hunting the carted stag. There has never been any secret about what the Ward Union does - hell, their website tells it all on the internet!

I have no idea if they are still hunting the carted stag or not. I know the NI Govt passed a ban - but when that ban became law I do not know. But if I was trying to prove that they are, I'd try and find a bit more evidence than 2 stags in a trailer!

JG - I apologise of I have taken your up wrong but...
This media report is from Northern Ireland. There was a stag hunting pack in NI -but their current status is unclear.

The Ward union are a Southern Ireland hunt. The ROI government banned stag hunting in the south of Ireland last year. The Ward Union is still going and looking to overturn the ban.

Stag hunting is still legal in Northern Ireland. In the media report the two stags in the trailer and the information on the "cancelled hunt" occured in two different locations. (this is not made clear in the video). The "farmed dear" were for some inexplicable reason then released into the wild.

The incident is now under investigation by the proper authorities and if there are any prosections to bring I am sure we will hear about it in the media

 

[JanetGeorge]

JG - I apologise of I have taken your up wrong but...
This media report is from Northern Ireland. There was a stag hunting pack in NI -but their current status is unclear.

The Ward union are a Southern Ireland hunt. The ROI government banned stag hunting in the south of Ireland last year. The Ward Union is still going and looking to overturn the ban.

Stag hunting is still legal in Northern Ireland. In the media report the two stags in the trailer and the information on the "cancelled hunt" occured in two different locations. (this is not made clear in the video). The "farmed dear" were for some inexplicable reason then released into the wild.

The incident is now under investigation by the proper authorities and if there are any prosections to bring I am sure we will hear about it in the media

No apology necessary - you are quite right! My brain gets totally addled where Irish politics AND Irish geography are concerned. The NI pack was the Co Down Staghounds - who also hunted the carted stag, I believe, but closed down in 1998 when the NI Govt - under pressure from antis - decided that the deer were 'domestic' and therefore covered by the the Welfare of Animals Act, 1972.

The deer in the pics certainly did not look the slightest bit like the magnificent antlered stags always used by the Ward Union!

 

[Fiagai]

In the interests of a rational discusion the sole use of smilies in response to any post is infact trolling. It contributes nothing in the way of discussion to the thread.