We are writing as a concerned group of leading animal welfare organisations including Dogs Trust, Europe’s largest dog welfare charity, and two of Ireland’s oldest and largest animal welfare charities, the Irish SPCA and the Irish Blue Cross.

WE write as a concerned group of leading animal welfare organisations with extensive experience of greyhound welfare.

The Government’s latest piece of animal welfare legislation was comfortably passed in the Dáil today after it was altered to secure the support of the Greyhound industry and pro-hunt lobby.

WE are a coalition of animal-welfare groups with extensive experience working with dogs in this country.

DUSTIN the Turkey has scooped the Celebrity Dublin Project of the Decade at the 2003 Guinness Living Dublin Awards.