Campaigns in the Republic of Ireland
If you live in Northern Ireland please click here
CAPS and AFAR run a number of campaigns to expose and end the use of animals in circuses.
Protest Against Arts Council Funding of Animal Circuses
Arts Council of Ireland
Our current campaign is to persuade the Arts Council to stop funding animal
circuses. In 2007, the Arts Council - funded by the public - gave €186,500
to three Irish circuses using animals.
Click here for more details on this campaign.
Write to your TD and the Taoseach
You can also help end animal cruelty by writing to your TD and the Taoseach, calling on them to take action and end the use of animals in circuses.
Please use the information on this website.
Write to your TD at:
Dail Eireann,
Leinster House,
Kildare Street,
Dublin 2.
Tel: 01-618 3000.
If you are not sure who your TD is, click here go to the Houses of the Orieachtas website:
Write to the Taoseach:
Mr Bertie Ahern, TD
Department of the Taoiseach,
Government Buildings,
Merrion Street,
Dublin 2
taoiseach@taoiseach.irlgov.ie
Protests
AFAR organise protests outside animal circuses whenever they are in the Dublin area. If you would like to get actively involved in protests, or help at AFAR’s weekly information stand in the city centre, contact them at afar_ireland@yahoo.ie
If you want to get involved with campaigns elsewhere in Ireland or want help in organising your own contact info@captiveanimals.org
Report a circus
Have you seen anything at an animal circus that concerned you?
Then let us know!
Many people do not realise that some circuses still use animals, and even then may visit the circus thinking that the animals are probably well cared for.
But members of the public regularly contact animal protection organisations to complain at the way animals are treated in circuses.
These reports are vital to assist us in exposing the treatment of animals in circuses.
If you have seen things in an animal circus that concern you, please let us know. Click here for more details.
Resources
We have a number of campaign resources including factsheets, leaflets and videos.
Join our mailing list
To be kept up to date with the campaign against animal circuses in Ireland, you can join our e-mail list.