Coursing Club facing prosecution
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Saturday March 19, 2011 00:45
by Ending blood sports in Ireland
Sligo-based coursing club, Tubbercurry/Ballymote CC, facing prosecution!
A County Sligo-based coursing club, Tubbercurry/Ballymote CC, is to face prosecution for three alleged breaches of the Wildlife Act. Gardai have confirmed this today in a letter to the Irish Council Against Blood Sports.
The prosecution will relate to the club's netting of hares on Oyster Island, off the Sligo coast, for use in its high profile hare coursing event.
For years, locals have looked on helplessly as men armed with sticks, iron bars, and home-batons arrived in boats on the island to capture scores of hares for their live baiting festival.
Campaigners for a ban on hare coursing will await with interest the outcome of the upcoming court case.
What hare coursing fans call "a fine country sport for all the family"
