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Open Seasons Order. Hunting season.

Hunting Season Opens in Ireland – Wildlife Under Fire

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The hunting season for birds and mammals has opened in Ireland.

The Open Seasons Orders (Birds) and (Mammals) list the bird and mammal species that can be hunted by individuals, and at organised hunting meetings.

From the 1st of August onwards, birds and animals can be hunted using firearms, packs of harrier and beagle hounds, and at regulated hare coursing meetings. The Open Seasons Order sets out the hunting season dates and areas of the country that legal hunting can take place.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service/NPWS are the regulatory body that issues and oversees the operation of the Open Seasons Orders.

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Anti-Hare Coursing Protest Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Hare Coursing.

Hare Coursing in Ireland – Campaign to Continue Until a Ban is Achieved

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Hare coursing in Ireland will be banned.

That was the defiant message issued by anti-hare coursing organisations as around forty people protested outside Powerstown Park racecourse, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

The annual three day national festival of hare coursing was being held at this venue. First held in 1925, and organised by the Irish Coursing Club (established 1916) there have been only two years, 1968, coursing meeting not held to a Foot and Mount Disease outbreak, 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, where hares were not used as gambling fodder at this Co. Tipperary racecourse.

During the two-hour demonstration, protestors held banners highlighting the cruelty of hare coursing and calling on the Irish government to save the Irish hare.

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Irish Hare Coursing licence issued.

Irish Hare Abuse Continues in Ireland

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Irish hare abuse to continue.

The annual hare netting and hare tagging licences have been issued to the Irish Coursing Club and its 88 affiliated coursing clubs. Hare coursing is administered by the Irish Coursing Club (ICC) which is a body set up under the Greyhound Industry Act 1958.

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, James Browne, issued the licences on the 24th of July.

Under the licence, it will be legal to capture live hares by means of nets between 8 August 2025 and 28 February 2026 subject to thirty-seven conditions. These apply to the conduct of hare coursing and to the treatment of captured hares.

The licence to attach a numbered tag to hares taken in accordance with a licence issued under Section 34 of the Wildlife Acts during the period beginning on 8 August 2025 and ending on 28 February 2026 is subject to seven conditions in respect of tagging and releasing captured hares.

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Hare Coursing – 81% of journal.ie Readers Want a Ban

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Nearly 82% of journnal.ie readers want a ban on hare coursing.

In a recent online poll hosted by the journal.ie which asked the question, Should Hare Coursing Be Banned? viewers voted in support of banning this barbaric activity.

The poll findings (as of the 20th April) showed that 81. 5% agreed that hare coursing should be banned, 15.3% said no while 3.2% were unsure.

This rejection of using the Irish Hare as a live lure will add to calls for this activity to be banned.

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