Recent content by John Fitzgerald

To mark (not celebrate!) forty years of campaigning for the protection of the endangered Irish Hare, I’ve just published a novel. In my childhood I read Richard Adams’ classic Watership Down, and was enthralled by it. That was about the adventures of a group of rabbits. For the past two and a...

Hi to all rabbit lovers...just been on radio here in Ireland to speak out against the trapping and removal of hares from a peaceful island in scenic Galway Bay for use in coursing. Great public support for our campaign to stop this cruel practice...:wave...

Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports[/b] [/b] Lower Coyne Street, Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland Phone: 00 353 56 77 25543 or (086) 3271179 [/b] [/b] Petition to end the cruel practice of live hare coursing in Ireland[/b] Dear Friends, Please sign this petition (it takes...

Thanks:Dfor that! The odd bit of praise warms the heart!

Just sharing some thoughts about my thiry years of campaigning here in Ireland for the protection of the Irish Hare (better known as the jack rabbit in the USA and Canada I think?) It's been a hell of an experience...fighting to get hares and rabbits protected from a "sport" called live hare...