Anti-blood sport campaigners demonstrate outside the coursing ground in Clonmel.
Outside the National Hare Coursing meeting at Powerstown, Clonmel, County Tipperary 200 animal rights activists assemble to mount a peaceful picket. The Irish Council Against Bloodsport had expected a figure in the region of 500 demonstrators.
Priests attending the meeting are singled out for special attention by placard-carrying protesters.
A handful of clergymen took part in the picket but were greatly outnumbered by clerical colleagues inside attending the meeting.
Rumours that high-profile animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot would attend the demonstration failed to materialise.
The Master McGrath Monument outside Dungarvan commemorating greyhound, Master McGrath was vandalised with red paint by a group calling itself the Irish Wildlife Protection Group.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 6 February 1985. The reporter is Michael Walsh.
