Green Party has betrayed country people
Oliver Plunkett Park
Cashel
Dear Editor
I read with some interest, some recent contributions to your letters page - the ongoing palaver re the Green Party Animal Rights Agenda, versus the various Country Sports Clubs and Organisations.
It is interesting to note the way that the Green Party contributors evade the central issues and try to deny their connections to the fanatical and sometimes violent Animal Rights Movement.
Indeed, senior members of the Green Party make no secret of their admiration for some of the more extreme elements of these fanatical organisations. Their pathetic attempts to now distance themselves from their more extreme members' views is a real eye opener. They now realise the way that they have alienated country people, and by their feeble attempts to claw back support, they have shown that they now will dance to any music in order to try to hold on to any support they may have had among rural folk.
This patronising attitude will not be forgotten by country sport supporters. The Green Party and those in coalition with them will rue the day they betrayed the ordinary country people that have hunted, fished, and worked for generations to preserve Ireland's Wildlife.
The people that really look after animals are those that live side by side with them on a daily basis out in the countryside such as farmers, hunters and anglers. Those in power would do well to remember these facts.
Yours,
George McGrath.
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