Michael D first to call for hare coursing ban

international | animal rights | opinion/analysis Monday October 31, 2011 17:32 by Protect our Hares

Michael D Higgins, our new President, was the first member of Ireland's parliament to push for a ban on live hare coursing

Hares in their natural habitat...Michael D tried to have them protected by law

Our poet-president Michael D Higgins, has beena life long champion of Ireland's wildlife heritage. Wehn the Senate was debating the Wildlife Bill in 1975, he tried tro have an amendment included to outlaw hare coursing...and among those who backed him were Mary Robinson, another future President of Ireland...and Dr. Noel Browne, an Irish political hero who had stood up to the might of Catholic Church when it intervened to prevent his Mother and Child Bill from ever seeing the light of day.

Though Michael D's anti-hare coursing amendment failed, the campaign he helped to initiate continues.

http://banharecoursinginireland.over-blog.com/article-m....html

Hare coursing...Michael D Higgins tried to have it banned in 1975