It’s hard to believe that ARAN has been fighting animal abuse almost seventeen years now, and during that time our work has cast open the doors that has hidden the shady world of animal abuse for far too long. During this time, our work has inspired literally thousands of people to now live more kinder, compassionate lives. Our work has inspired a whole new generation of young people to become active in the fight to expose animal abuse, and our work has saved, without doubt, countless lives - but there’s so much more to do.

Whilst ARAN is known for our popular events, demonstrations, media campaigns, grassroots outreach, celebrity support and investigations, our focus has always been and continues to be reaching out to the next generation. Recently we visited a school in Dublin, upon arrival there were roughly 130 students waiting to hear about ARAN, our campaigns and our work to expose animal abuse – for many students attending, it was a life changing moment. During our talk we spoke of most aspects of animal abuse including, factory farming, slaughterhouses, circuses, animal experimentation, captivity in zoos, adopting animals, spaying and neutering, greyhound racing, hunting, and much more. Take a moment to see some footage of the educational class that was authorised by the school. We like to take this footage from time to time to show our supporters the work we’re doing to help young people become kinder, animal advocates, click here. Please consider setting up a monthly standing order to support ARAN's work, or send a once-off donation. ARAN is known for our strict, cost-effective and efficient use of donors' donations. No person at ARAN gets paid.

Also in other news, ARAN were happy to throw our weight and support behind the second 'Forgotten Felines Protest' in Dublin recently, it was a great day with a great turn out, and also had support from other animal groups too, the weather also made for a great day. Also this week we spoke on radio stations at Dublin's 98FM, Near FM and Tipperary FM about the UK looking to introduce legislation by 2015 to ban animal-act circuses. We also were interviewed by The Sunday Times for an article on hunting and blood sports in Ireland. Also recently, radio stations contacted ARAN for interviews relating to the shocking statistics of 279,263 animals used during 2010 in Irish laboratories, universities and college’s. Many animals included dogs and cats. Interviews took place on Newstalk, Clare FM, Kildare FM, 4FM and Dublin’s 98FM. We’re working to highlight this problem and make people more aware of animal experiments in Ireland.