MADAM,

IT occurs to me that many of the rank and file supporters of hunting might be scratching their heads in deep anxiety and wondering what is going on and when might they be able to resume hunting. Undoubtedly our inability to be out in the wild countryside, in God’s clean air, with our horses and hounds is only adding to the general malaise and depression that envelopes rural Ireland. To get back out hunting would be of enormous importance in people’s recovery and our journey back to normality.