Time has run out for greyhound racing industry
Lay of the Land
It's over seven years since I wrote here about seeing two cowering greyhounds being thrown into the river in this country town. At the time I noted that the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) received €11m in state funding that year.
"Nearly 900 greyhounds ended up in state pounds in 2010, where two thirds were killed," I went on. "Even euthanasia is too big a price to pay for some dogs that have run the living daylights out of themselves. The bodies of six greyhounds shot and dumped in a quarry earlier this year caused a sensation. Sadly, it's the norm."