Clare PAW - Party for Animal Welfare - Banner County Clare

18/08/2026

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We are temporarily closed, and with heavy hearts, we have to let you know that we are currently unable to take in any new pets.

At the moment, the money in our account is only enough to cover our most recent vet bill — and, as many of you know, those bills can run into thousands of euro every single month. Once that is paid, there is nothing left.

We receive a small grant each year, and we are incredibly grateful for it, but unfortunately it doesn’t come close to covering even a third of our ongoing veterinary costs. We simply cannot continue taking in animals when we don't know if we will have the funds to pay their veterinary bills, food, medication and the other expenses involved in caring for our foster animals.

This is an incredibly difficult position for us to be in. 💔

Our amazing supporters have carried us through so many difficult times. Your generosity has quite literally allowed us to keep going and continue helping animals who had nowhere else to turn. We will never be able to thank you enough for that.

So, if you can find it in your heart to support us once again, please consider making a donation. ❤️ Even the smallest amount can make a difference, and when lots of people give a little, it can mean everything to the animals in our care.

Every single cent donated goes directly towards helping animals in need. We are 100% volunteer-run, so your donations go towards the animals — not wages or salaries.

We desperately want to be able to reopen our doors and continue saving animals who need us. We just need your help to get there. 🐾❤️

Below are links to all the different ways you can donate.

Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for standing beside us and for helping us keep going.

GoFundMe:
https://gofund.me/20f606b68
PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=SGBSJ4QYRSTHA

Stripe: https://buy.stripe.com/14k8xhgsV9SJ3pmeUU

18/08/2026

🤩🤩 MAD MARES MINI TOUR ❤️❤️❤️❤️

The countdown is on! - kicking off this Saturday at 11 am, Dunnes Stores carpark Crumlin.

Belinda Morgan & Kerry Ann are taking on a 150km cycle to raise funds for My Lovely Horse Rescue, and they need our support!

Two incredible women: Belinda Morgan of The Hairy Project and MLHR’s own Kerry Ann, are cycling 150km from Dublin to Wicklow from Saturday, 22nd August to raise funds and awareness for the rescue.

Every cent donated makes a real and lasting difference to the animals in our care. Let’s cheer these two amazing women on, they’ll be pedalling every kilometre for our precious MLHR animals! Thank you so much. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Please donate to the MAD MARES MINI TOUR ❤️

https://donate.mylovelyhorserescue.com/mad-mares-mini-tour/

Thank you to Dublin People for featuring the tour!

https://dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/articles/2026/08/18/pedal-power-for-my-lovely-horse-rescue/?amp=1

15/08/2026

Maybe someone wants to support amazing work of An Cats Dubh Sanctuary in West Clare.
Please support and share ❤️🐾🐈‍⬛️❤️

15/08/2026

🐾 BUCKET COLLECTION – LIMERICK MILK MARKET 🐾

We’ll be out fundraising for Deel Sighthound Rescue this Sunday, 16 August, from 10.30am–3pm at the Limerick Milk Market, together with the wonderful Christine Prettenthaler! 💚

If you’re heading to the market, please come over and say hello to our volunteers and, if you can, pop a few euro into our bucket. Every donation, big or small, helps us provide the food, veterinary care, kennelling and love our rescued sighthounds need. 🐾💚

Come meet us, have a chat, and support our gorgeous greyhounds and lurchers! 🐕✨

🙏 Please give generously – every euro really does help save a life.

📍 Limerick Milk Market
📅 Sunday, 16 August
⏰ 10.30am–3pm
🤝 With Christine Prettenthaler

Thank you, as always, for supporting Deel Sighthound Rescue – and a huge thank you to our amazing volunteers who give their time to make these collections possible. 💚

15/08/2026

Party for Animal Welfare out protesting this evening against greyhound racing at Shelbourne Park stadium....lots of passing cars hooting in support.... greyhound racing was banned just this month in New Zealand and earlier this year in Scotland and Wales.... Party for Animal Welfare will keep protesting til its banned here.

12/08/2026

These activists walked into Ridglan Farms and walked out with beagles—and walked straight into legal trouble for it. They're out of jail now, and their story matters because it's about something bigger than one farm or one raid.

Animal testing facilities operate in the shadows. The dogs inside them never see daylight, never feel grass, never know what it means to be loved. These activists saw that reality and decided the law mattered less than the lives in front of them.

They faced arrest. They faced prosecution. They faced the weight of choosing between staying safe and staying silent. And they chose the beagles.

That's the kind of courage that changes things—not because it's comfortable or celebrated, but because someone decided that a dog's suffering was more important than their own freedom. The conversation about animal testing won't end with one raid. But it started because people were willing to risk everything for animals who couldn't fight back themselves.

11/12/2025

"€100 million to a gambling-fuelling, addiction-fuelling industry" - Paul Murphy TD calls for end to government's funding of horse and greyhound racing. Read his full statement below...

Paul Murphy: Stop Funding the Greyhound and Horse Racing Industry
27 Nov 2025

The government wants to hand over another €100 million to the greyhound racing and horse racing industry. Paul Murphy highlighted in the Dáil how this money is siphoned to the wealthiest in our country, and how suffering of animals is not the priority of this outdated industry.

Paul Murphy says “the government wants to hand over about €20 million to greyhound racing and about €80 million to the horse racing industry. To put that in context, that is close to the total funding for Sport Ireland. It is more than three times the amount of core funding given to the 87 different sports bodies in this country, adding together the GAA, the FAI, Swim Ireland, Athletics Ireland and Special Olympics Ireland.

"This is €100 million to a gambling-fuelling, addiction-fuelling industry. Where does the money go? Does it fund the welfare of horses and greyhounds? Does it fight the scourge of gambling addiction? Does it assure decent pay for workers in the sector? Of course not.

"The vast majority of this money goes to prize money, public money paid by the State tax-free into the pockets of the wealthy owners. The Department of agriculture itself allows that €75 million of this money, over three quarters, can go into prize money. We do not have to look very far to find some of these owners, in particular greyhound owners.

"Internationally, people are moving to ban greyhound racing - Wales, Scotland, New Zealand. Instead, we are funnelling more and more money into an industry that would not exist without it. Almost 3,000 of the 12,500 racing greyhounds born in 2021 were already dead or unaccounted for just three years later. How high is that number now?

"A report commissioned by the Minister has said that the welfare of racing greyhounds in Ireland is an 'existential issue' for the industry. Of course it is. With dogs dying on the tracks, freezers for dead dogs at every single racetrack across the country, and a quarter of Irish racing greyhounds dead before their third or fourth year, how could ordinary people possibly be happy with it?”

https://www.pbp.ie/paul-murphy-stop-funding-the-greyhound-and-horse-racing-industry/

11/12/2025

🦊 SIGN HERE: https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/petition-to-ban-fox-hunting-in-ireland

It’s time to ban fox hunting, and a bill to do just that was introduced to First Stage in the Dáil this year by .coppinger - but to make it a success, we need everyone to get behind the campaign! Start by signing this petition, contact your TDs, and join our campaign!

11/12/2025

14/09/2025

Our potential candidate for Gerben Uunk and activist, lived in before he moved to . For example he lived in the same small town where the current president Michael D Higgins, grew up, at . Gerben also ran for office in , , in 2014.

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/elections/1890894/limerick-based-animal-activist-launches-bid-to-get-aras-nomination.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawMzgDlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHn36gaV7Y_tj3w2WRugKbSVYXzhOKAtBJGTOsBSjC9TruK4I6r1N7iF_IXEY_aem_wsmllVEpGMyvb2t_780g7Q

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