Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports
Lower Coyne Street, Callan, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland

Email: Jfitzg3@eircom.net

Appeal…Please ask leading Irish hotel to STOP sponsoring hare coursing and NOT to host coursing club awards!

On the evening of Saturday, April 2nd, the Ireland’s Hare Coursing Club will organize a gala event to promote the cruel and discredited so-called “sport of live hare coursing.

The ICC Awards 2011 will be held during the club’s annual glitzy dinner dance in the plush Hotel Minella, in Clonmel, County Tipperary.
Apart from hosting this event that aims to glamorize an activity in which timid creatures are snatched from their natural environment and terrorized for fun, Hotel Minella also directly sponsors the cruelty.

Each year, the “Hotel Minella Oaks” features as an integral part of the three-day national hare coursing “festival” in Clonmel.
Obviously, the hotel believes it can benefit financially from supporting this vile blood sport. In doing so, it is completely ignoring the views and feelings of people who wish to see live coursing banned and the endangered Irish Hare protected by law.

Those of us who oppose cruelty to animals dressed up as sport can now make our views known to the hotel. Let’s appeal to its management to cancel the ICC Awards event and to stop financing live hare coursing!

Let them see that people who care about animals will think twice about ever setting foot in their hotel if it continues to sponsor the horrific abuse of one of the gentlest and most inoffensive creatures in the Irish countryside.

You can email the hotel at frontdesk@hotelminella.ie

Alternatively, you can phone the hotel. The number (from within Ireland) is 052-6122388 or (from outside Ireland) 353 52 6122388.

Thanking you,
John Fitzgerald,
PRO,
Campaign for the Abolition
Of Cruel Sports

A lovely "rural pursuit" ...live hare coursing, as much a part of our glorious culture as the good old industrial schools!