Life is better in the country

Tuesday, 22 March 2011 11:58

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I am fed up of reading John Fitzgerald rantings in your paper especially his sour grapes letter regarding the demise of the Green Party.

The greens were booted out of the Dáil because 98.3 per cent of the Irish electorate didn't agree with their extremist policies.
It doesn't get any plainer or simpler than that. John Gormley had a personnel vendetta with the Ward Union Hunt because they beat him in the High Court the previous year.
In banning the Ward Union he banned the only form of deer hunting in this country where the deer don't lose their life and yet granted over 4,000 licences to people to shoot deer. What sense does that make? He claimed it was stressful on the stags. But does a horse who is raced around the racecourses of Ireland over fences with an 11 stone man on its back not suffer any stress?

Why didn't Mr. Gormley try to ban that. Has anyone ever seen a stag running around the fields of Meath with a jockey on its back? Mr. Fitzgerald was at pains to point that banning the Ward Union had no bearing on the election results. But I beg to differ as not only were the Greens wiped out but in the Ward Union heartland of Meath no FF TD was returned to Dáil Eireann.
They either lost their seats or in the case of Noel Dempsey or Mary Wallace were too spineless to face the electorate again knowing the fate that was in store for them.

The Green Party was 90 per cent Dublin based and while they were trying to tell us country people how to live our lives they would have been much better off if they did something about the chronic drug problem and gangland warfare that is going on under their noses.
Fianna Fáil have also learned their lesson about trying to change our way of life that we have lived for centuries. Our children are much better off out in the countryside be it with horse or fishing rod than hanging around the streets getting caught up in drug or anti-social behaviour.

Yours in sport,
Kevin Gallagher,
Aughadrina,
Castlebar.

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0 #1 David T 2011-03-24 20:31

I find it odd that some Irish people are strangely sentimental about cruel colonial traditions such as hunting with hounds. Clearly a case of hunt morons harking back to the "good old days". Thankfully most people don't live in the past and recognise cruelty when they see it.

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