Actress Pauline McLynn joined an anti-fox hunting protest outside Leinster House on Wednesday.

The bill, introduced by People before Profit Solidarity TD, Ruth Coppinger, sought to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to ban the hunting of a fox or foxes.

A man in his 20s died in a rural location following the incident.

An Ireland thinks poll shows 98 per cent of people have never taken part in a fox hunt where riders on horseback follow a pack of dogs hunting a fox.

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Two independent TDs opposed the bill, with Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae saying foxes had ‘completely taken over the place’.