I read with interest that our Minister for Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, has taken it upon himself to ask Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland to review their support for greyhound sport in light of the RTÉ Investigates programme recently aired.

The representative body for greyhound racing in Ireland has expressed its “shock and disappointment” at the news the sport is no longer being promoted by the country’s tourism bodies to either the national or international markets.

A team of economic consultants has been appointed by the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) to examine the financial sustainability of its 16 licenced stadiums around the country.

Raw trading figures from within the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) have revealed that it is performing much worse than the ‘worst-case’ scenario built into its survival plan.

Well into the second year of a five-year plan for the greyhound industry, Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan studies the latest forecasts