Fox Hunting is ending and the loopholes will finally close! We need to make sure the ban is tight, enforceable, and impossible to wriggle out of. | Protect the Wild

Trail hunting is fox hunting in disguise. It allows hunts to keep packs of hounds and horses, leaving foxes chased, injured, and killed - while making illegal hunting easy to deny and hard to enforce. This week, the government announced plans to strengthen the Hunting Act and ban trail hunting in England and Wales. Here are 5 things you need to know - and why this long-overdue crackdown matters. | PETA UK

Watch the Dail debate on Ruth Coppinger TD's "Ban Fox Hunting" bill - 17 December 2025. Later in the day, the bill was shamefully voted down by 124 TDs (mainly from Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Sinn Fein). Thank you to the 24 TDs who voted in favour of the bill. 00:00:13 Ruth Coppinger TD (Solidarity, Dublin West) 00:10:37 Roderic O'Gorman TD (Green Party, Dublin West) 00:15:14 Seamus Healy TD (Independent, Tipperary South) 00:20:19 Martin Heydon TD (Minister for Agriculture, Fine Gael, Kildare So

Ban Bloodsports on Instagram: "The shameful continuation of fox hunting during the "Irish Famine" (An Gorta Mór)... "The Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association was established in 1845 during the Famine. While ordinary people were starving to death, there was aristocrats in red coats riding around on horseback, torturing animals to death. That is what this tradition is about" - Paul Murphy TD (People Before Profit - Solidarity, Dublin South West) "This is not an ancient Irish rural tradition. It