A police drone was used to catch three people hare coursing, as part of crackdown on rural crime in East Cleveland. The three males were caught on private farmland and later detained by police. Hare ...

Arts Minister Josepha Madigan has been forced to conduct a high-security study of hares after a heated meeting of Fine Gael ministers and TDs over a ban on coursing. The Government is now going to ...

A ROW has erupted over the catching of 78 hares in Millstreet last winter. Millstreet Coursing Club this week flatly denied that it had caught the hares in Millstreet Country Park — but did so nearby.

A group of hare coursers have been fined and had their dogs confiscated after police used night-vision goggles to catch the criminals when they hid in a hedgerow on private land. Officers used the ...