#Latest news with #TheunspeakableinpursuitoftheuneatableIrish Independent5 days agoIrish IndependentMáiría Cahill: Running with the foxes and hunting with the hounds must be utterly exhausting for Sinn FéinIt's a British tradition so antiquated that even they have banned it. Oscar Wilde once called it 'The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.' The British aristocracy introduced it to Ireland in the 1840s, and now hundreds of their descendants holiday here to partake in it with us and to spill blood on Irish soil.
Irish Independent5 days agoIrish IndependentMáiría Cahill: Running with the foxes and hunting with the hounds must be utterly exhausting for Sinn FéinIt's a British tradition so antiquated that even they have banned it. Oscar Wilde once called it 'The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.' The British aristocracy introduced it to Ireland in the 1840s, and now hundreds of their descendants holiday here to partake in it with us and to spill blood on Irish soil.
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