Pressure to control the poison Alphachloralose, available over the counter in Ireland, is intensifying following the poisoning of two more red kites in County Wicklow. The young birds were part of an Irish reintroduction project and had only been released in July 2009.
Alphachloralose has been used to kill red kites, golden eagles and white-tailed eagles across Ireland in recent years. The Golden Eagle Trust, a local NGO attempting to re-introduce all three species back to ireland, have lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission over the State’s failure to protect the birds.
Full story: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0329/1224267276974.html
Golden Eagle Trust website: http://www.goldeneagle.ie/
Raptor Persecution UK 
I noticed in the Irish Times report, a call from a farmers representative to end the use of “all meat baits”. By this I presume he means that using egg baits [commonly used with alpha to try to target crows]should continue.
If so, I would remind those deluded poisoners who think you can target a species using poison in the open…of an experiment carried out by the Department of Agriculture for Scotland [DAFS] in 1974 when 1000 alpha eggs were put out, on several scottish highland farms [under controlled licensed conditions]as a prelude to allowing the use of alpha, for widespread crow control.
They managed to kill over 20 proteced birds…including 6 buzzards, 3 of which were found to have eaten the eggs directly…the others of course, were killed by secondary poisoning [eating poisoned crows].That was the end of licensed crow control with alpha in Scotland.
Scavengers such as both species of eagle and red kite would most definitely be at risk from such non meat baits.