BORD na gCon, according to a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, has a history of litigation that cost the semi-state body in excess of €3.9 million in the period 2000-2006.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Little has resigned as vice-chairman of Cork City and his investment in the club has been taken over by the Arkaga Fund, the private equity firm for which he worked.

LIMERICK hasn’t been a happy hunting ground for favourites in the Kerry Agri Business Irish St Leger and Saturday night proved another tough night for punters.

THE Irish Greyhound Board will announce the successor to former chief executive Aidan Tynan in the next fortnight, The Irish Examiner has learned.

THE taxpayer was hit with another massive Bord na gCon pay-out yesterday after a senior executive with the company settled for a near €1 million package after agreeing to withdraw a bullying action against the former Greyhound Board boss Paschal Taggart and two others.

SPORTS Minister John O’Donoghue yesterday named Kerry veterinary surgeon and racecourse manager Dick O’Sullivan as Paschal Taggart’s replacement as chairman of Bord na gCon.

The chairman of Bord na gCon, Paschal Taggart, is to step down today.

THE State’s financial watchdog last night launched a sweeping probe into Bord na gCon.

AIDAN TYNAN, the former chief executive of Bord na gCon, yesterday defended his decision to go over the head of the authority’s board and inform the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism that two positive dope findings had been suppressed.

THE far-reaching recommendations of the independent report into the serious divisions that blew up in Bord na gCon last January will be implemented in full, Sports Minister John O’Donoghue said yesterday.

An independent anti-doping agency for the greyhound industry may be set up by the Government, it emerged tonight.

CONTROVERSIAL Bord na gCon chairman Paschal Taggart jumped before he was pushed, reliable Government sources said last night.

PUBLICATION of the long-awaited report on the divisive row over blood doping in the greyhound industry has been further delayed because of legal difficulties.

THE Government last night defeated an Opposition Bill aimed at tightening doping controls in the greyhound industry, saying it was premature.

AN independent board should be established to test for doping in the greyhound industry, the Dáil will hear tomorrow.

THE report into the sacking of former Bord na gCon chief executive Aidan Tynan has recommended that certain matters be referred to the Comptroller and Auditor General, John Purcell, for examination.

THE Government’s handling of the Bord na gCon affair has degenerated into total farce, Labour leader Pat Rabbitte said yesterday.

BORD NA gCON chairman Paschal Taggart admitted yesterday that he has dogs registered in the names of his children, and that one of those animals was trained by a man at the centre of the doping scandal.

EVEN before it is published, serious questions are hanging over the report into Bord na gCon following a claim by its controversial chairman that media coverage of what the document contains appeared to be at variance with indications that he had received from the author during his investigation.

Dalton report recommends changes at Bord na gCon

THE report into the controversial sacking of the Bord na gCon chief executive will be discussed by the Cabinet today, the Irish Examiner understands.

THE investigation into drug testing in the greyhound industry has reached several far-reaching conclusions that may delay the publication of its findings for another month.

SPORTS Minister John O’Donoghue yesterday hinted the report into recent controversies in the greyhound industry may take longer than initially anticipated.

WE wish to express our deep disgust at the way that the Irish Examiner has dealt with (and, arguably, created much of) the controversy surrounding the greyhound racing industry since the dismissal of the Irish Greyhound Board chief, Aidan Tynan, on January 26.

FINE GAEL is to push for the establishment of an independent control body for Bord na gCon in order to remove any suspicion of interference in doping cases.

BELEAGUERED Bord na gCon chairman Paschal Taggart last night again went against the publicly declared request by Sports Minister John O’Donoghue to refrain from public statements about the sacking of Bord na gCon chairman Aidan Tynan.

THE job of sacked Bord na gCon chief executive Aidan Tynan was advertised in Sunday newspapers while an investigation into the controversy continues.

GREYHOUND owners in the west of Ireland have passed a vote of no confidence in Bord na Gcon chairman Paschal Taggart.

TG4 last night pulled a five-minute report favourable to Paschal Taggart from its weekly programme on greyhound racing.

ONE of the greyhound trainers Paschal Taggart claims was lacking in “awareness” when he administered prohibited drug EPO was fined by British racing authorities 14 months ago for using banned substances.

THE under-fire chairman of Bord na gCon Paschal Taggart openly accepted this weekend that two positive EPO doping findings were not publicised partly because one case involved the top greyhound trainer in the country.

THE press conference called by Paschal Taggart, the controversial chairman of Bord na gCon, was in direct and deliberate defiance of Sports Minister John O’Donoghue.

THE decision of Paschal Taggart to go ahead with a weekend press conference was an unprecedented affront to Sports Minister John O’Donoghue, Labour sports spokesman Jack Wall said yesterday.

The Chairman of Bord na gCon is standing over his statement that the sacking of Chief Executive Aidan Tynan is not linked to the greyhound doping controversy.

The chairman of Bórd na gCon Pascal Taggart is planning to push ahead with a press conference today, despite the wishes of the Minister for Sport John O’Donoghue.

Sports Minister John O’Donoghue today urged all sides in the Bord na gCon dispute not to air details of the controversy in public.

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte last night launched a stinging criticism of the handling of the Bord na gCon controversy, claiming that Sports Minister John O’Donoghue and chairman Paschal Taggart had both displayed a serious lack of judgement.

PASCHAL Taggart, the embattled chairman of Bord na gCon, should resign.

FORMER Bord na gCon officials have cost the State body huge sums in payouts and legal costs as part of ‘confidential’ departure payments following disagreements with the board headed by Paschal Tagart.

A FORMER senior civil servant will carry out an independent assessment into Irish Greyhound Board’s doping controls and the manner in which its board dismissed its chief executive last week.

Sports Minister John O’Donoghue tonight called for an independent investigation into the controversial sacking of the chief executive of Bord na gCon in the wake of a greyhound doping scandal.

WITH the murky world of Irish greyhound racing mired in controversy after the sacking of the Irish Greyhound Board’s chief executive, allegedly for blowing the whistle in a doping row, yesterday’s call for an independent body to police the lucrative sport warrants serious consideration.