KAREN MAYE,
Sir, - In response to John Tierney's tirade (August 21st) against the "morally bankrupt, pathologically vicious and emotionally stunted" people who train hounds to hunt foxes, may I ask what on earth an association such as his, which claims to have such an enlightened insight and passion for the wildlife in the Irish country side, is doing with its headquaters based in Dublin 1? Perhaps if the people involved in such organisations both lived and worked in the countryside and could still be such ardent lovers of the murderer of their lambs and poultry, their argument may be a little more credible. - Yours, etc.,
KAREN MAYE, Aberdeen, AB10 6SX, Scotland