“Country Lifestyle is one of Ireland’s long established outdoor sports shop based in Mallow, Co. Cork. We have a vast selection of quality products at great prices from Pets & Pet Accessories, Feed, New & Used Guns, Ammunition & Air Pellets, Fishing Tackle and Saddlery.” The ‘lifestyle’ sold here is – as a logo designed around someone blasting birds out of the air proves – centred around so-called ‘country sports’ – ie killing wildlife. Unsurprising, then, to learn that the owner of Country Lifestyle is a fox hunter: Fianna Fail Councillor Pat Hayes (Cork County Council), who is also chairman of the Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association, a body which defends the cruel bloodsport of fox hunting (which is shamefully still legal in Eire). Hayes is also a joint-master of the Duhallow Hunt and a former master of the Iveagh Foxhounds.
Country Lifestyle Outdoor Sports (Co.Cork)
Links to more information
- Ban Bloodsports: Fianna Fail Councillor Pat Hayes is chairman of the Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association (Facebook, June 2025)
- Irish Field: HUNTING: Good day’s sport with the Duhallows (December 2023)
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