# animal-rights - Sunday 22 April, 2018
It’s not as bad as it was years ago but residents in Dublin still see problems with unlicensed horses.
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# animal-rights - Sunday 16 July, 2017
If your idea of fun is running with the bulls in Pamplona, you need to rethink your ethics, writes Grace McKeown.
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# animal-rights - Tuesday 14 March, 2017
Even in the best circumstances, it’s impossible for zoos to meet all the unique needs of the various species they hold captive, writes Elisa Allen.
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# animal-rights - Thursday 20 October, 2016
Catalonia’s regional parliament voted to abolish bullfighting from January 1, 2012 after animal rights groups garnered 180,000 signatures for a petition.
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# animal-rights - Tuesday 26 July, 2016
Councillors voted in favour of the motion last night.
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# animal-rights - Tuesday 22 March, 2016
The designer brand made the announcement today.
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# animal-rights - Thursday 15 October, 2015
Zoo officials have defended it as educational.
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# animal-rights - Friday 25 September, 2015
The activists have defended their actions, and claimed the dog was being mistreated.
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# animal-rights - Tuesday 1 September, 2015
The country’s treatment of animals is coming under increasing scrutiny from animal rights groups.
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# animal-rights - Thursday 6 August, 2015
The organisers of the Puck Fair have responded to criticism from animal rights groups.
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# animal-rights - Monday 11 May, 2015
The activists say they have ‘no regrets’.
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The lobsters were later released into the sea in Clontarf.
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# animal-rights - Thursday 23 April, 2015
But a lot of people were against the law.
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# animal-rights - Tuesday 30 December, 2014
The incident is not the first time the 33-year-old striker’s love of hunting has been made apparent.
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He bought the tigers for “a huge amount of money”, Chinese media says.
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# animal-rights - Saturday 13 December, 2014
Sam Simon of Simpsons fame was one of the 321 people who helped save Benjy from the chopping block.
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# animal-rights - Friday 28 November, 2014
In case you saw them from across the street earlier, and were wondering what was going on.
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# animal-rights - Wednesday 29 October, 2014
It is believed the dogs suffocated in transit during the 14-hour journey.
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# animal-rights - Monday 20 October, 2014
The motion, which goes before Kildare County Council, has the support of Mayor Fiona O’Loughlin.
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# animal-rights - Tuesday 14 October, 2014
There was uproar when it was suggested that the dog of a Spanish Ebola patient be put down.
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# animal-rights - Tuesday 7 October, 2014
A petition to stop it has tens of thousands of signatures already.
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# animal-rights - Tuesday 16 September, 2014
Joan. Cat menacer.
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# animal-rights - Monday 11 August, 2014
Good sense or Frankenfood? The issue is coming up for debate again in Europe.
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# animal-rights - Saturday 9 August, 2014
Hopefully in 100 years we’ll look back on animals in circuses like we now do about Victorian ‘freak show’ performances using disabled people.
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# animal-rights - Monday 4 August, 2014
The Department of Agriculture is trialling a vaccination programme in a number of counties to see how effective it is but most badgers captured are shot.
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# animal-rights - Saturday 12 July, 2014
The video shows shearers beating and throwing the animals, stamping on their necks and stitching wounds apparently without anaesthetic.
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# animal-rights - Monday 7 July, 2014
It’s led to new calls for a ban on wild animals in circuses.
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The Department of Agriculture has tendered for organisations to capture and vaccinate badgers.
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# animal-rights - Saturday 8 February, 2014
The circus has said that they treat their animals’ welfare as a “top priority”.
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# animal-rights - Monday 20 January, 2014
The hunt in the fishing village of Taiji in western Japan has come under international criticism and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film “The Cove”.
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There were approximately 10 million elephants in Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Today, thanks to widespread poaching, that number has dropped to 500,000.
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# animal-rights - Saturday 18 January, 2014
About 5,500 dogs are euthanised in Ireland every year – most are perfectly healthy. The only reason they have to die is because otherwise ordinary people are happy to turn a blind eye to the appalling consequences of their actions.
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# animal-rights - Wednesday 15 January, 2014
Figures from the UK suggest bereaved pet owners cost the economy £1 billion and a call for compulsory leave is being made here.
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# animal-rights - Thursday 19 December, 2013
Tonight’s Ear to the Ground programme will show its presenter killing a turkey. An animal rights group has called for the scene to be removed. Do you agree?
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# animal-rights - Wednesday 4 December, 2013
ARAN have launched a new campaign, supported by Senator David Norris.
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# animal-rights - Saturday 23 November, 2013
As pet-ownership grows among China’s expanding middle-class, an animal rights group is urging people to re-evaluate the practice of eating the animals.
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# animal-rights - Monday 7 October, 2013
A scene that showed a cat being shot set tongues wagging on social media, but one animal rights group is not happy with Nidge and the lads.
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# animal-rights - Sunday 25 August, 2013
Around 90 hare coursing meetings will be held in Ireland in the coming months, with each event using around 100 hares.
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# animal-rights - Thursday 15 August, 2013
# animal-rights - Wednesday 7 August, 2013
The fur seal has been examined since and is said to be doing fine.
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