Dear Members,
We can't believe the subject line heading either. We've just learned that RISE! - the pro-hunt campaign group here in Ireland has been shortlisted to receive an award from the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) for their 'successful campaign' during 2010 with the Ward Union hunt legislation fight - which has since been banned! ARAN has contacted the PRII to advise that the RISE! Campaign was far from successful as the cruel stag hunt was banned on grounds of animal welfare and if anything the RISE campaign consisted mainly of lies and playing with facts and figures whilst been heavily funded from developers and wealthy business people, it was a complete shambles if anything. The awards ceremony will take place at the Conrad Hotel, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2 with dinner and drinks from 12noon on June 16 – that's right, dinner and drinks for the those at RISE! who in our view get saddistic kicks out of tormenting and hunting a gentle, innocent animal.
ARAN needs all our supporters from across the country to inundate the Public Relations Institute of Ireland's CEO Gerry Davis with emails and polite telephone calls of protest to encourage him to drop RISE! from the nomination. We cannot overly state how important it is that you take action, once finished please be sure to send ARAN a copy of your email so that we can track the volume of correspondence.
YOUR ACTION WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE – EMAIL AND IF POSSIBLE CALL THE PRII TODAY!
Email: gerry@prii.ie and cc cyrilla@prii.ie; info@prii.
Finished emailing? Take a quick moment to tell the PRII how disgusted you really are with them for including a group that fronts blood sports on their nominations list, tell them to remove RISE! as a matter of urgency, call (01)-661 8004 and outside of Ireland +353-1-6618004
We're again asking all our supporters to please email the PRII and urge them to take RISE! off their nominations list, we must not allow RISE! to be publicly thanked for fronting the public relations of blood sports in Ireland, a successful vote for RISE! will tell the public that the hunting of Irish wildlife really is acceptable, but it's not. It would also be a real blow for RISE! to be taken off the list, wouldn’t that be music to your ears? We think so and more so music to the ears of many of Ireland's gentle wildlife.
As always, keep up the good work of helping to stop cruelty to animals and thank you for your ongoing, loyal support that enables us to be a national voice for all animals.
ARAN
'Fighting animal abuse across Ireland'
P.S. This time last year we were in the middle of an active campaign to help push through the Green Party legislation to ban the Ward Union hunt. Please see below two videos of our demonstration outside of Dail Eireann with roughly 120 campaigners and some news coverage of the campaign. ARAN thanks all campaigners and groups that played an active part in making this legislation a huge success.
Demonstration: http://www.
TV3 news coverage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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