Dáil Rally To Push Fox Hunting Ban

Tally-no! North Beach c2004. Pic: Anne Stanley

atest press release from Saoirse and the Uplift team, issued on Friday, March 20th 2026…

At the end of last year, people from every community in Ireland got involved in a massive campaign to ban fox hunting.

The bill didn’t pass, but we proved, without a shadow of a doubt, that the vast majority of people want cruel, colonial fox hunting banned.

Now we are ramping up pressure again and letting the Government know this is an issue that is not going away.

Our friends at Rural Ireland Against Fox Hunting are organising a rally outside the Dáil this Wednesday to keep the ban on fox hunting at the top of the political agenda. There will be animal welfare groups, farmers, landowners and politicians in attendance. Uplift members will be there with our banner, and the more of us that show up, the more we can drive home to TDs that banning fox hunting is an easy choice for them.

Fox hunting is an elitist, out-of-date, colonial pastime for the aristocracy and the landed gentry. Hunts cause havoc across rural Ireland by damaging farmland, destroying fences and ditches, and worrying livestock.

Most of us believe that our countryside should be a place where all wildlife can thrive and not a place for foxes to be hunted down and tortured for entertainment.

North Beach c2004. Pic: Anne Stanley

This Government was put under massive pressure last year to ban fox hunting and we know that lots of TDs were forced to vote alongside their parties even though they personally supported the ban.

Keeping a ban on fox hunting in the news, on social media, and in front of TDs faces will force them to deal with this. Political parties won’t want this issue to roll on causing internal controversy and forcing TDs to publicly defend a disgusting, elitist, and cruel bloodsport.

The rally will take place at 12:30pm on Wednesday, 25th of March outside the Dáil, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

It’s only a matter of time — fox hunting is an outdated, barbaric, colonial pastime that has no place in our communities.