Fox hunting makes people in rural Ireland “look like savages”, a farmer in Meath has argued.
Last week outside Leinster House, Rural Ireland Against Fox Hunting gathered for a protest to demand TDs ban hunting with dogs.
Late last year, a bill proposed by People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger was voted down by the Dáil.
124 TDs from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Aontú voted to keep fox hunting legal, while 24 TDs voted in favour of a ban.
Meath farmer and ‘Rural Ireland Against Fox Hunting’ spokesperson Donna Mullen says she hoped TDs would reconsider, describing the practice as “just cruel”.
Donna says that she also worries about her own animals whenever she sees the hunt arrive on her land, and she joined us on The Agenda this morning to talk to us some more about this.