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

The Irish Greyhound Board has said it can continue to trade as a going concern despite independent consultants delivering a damning assessment of the first year of its survival plan.

IN May 2012, it emerged that the Irish Greyhound Board was facing a serious debt crisis following the botched construction of its new flagship stadium on the outskirts of Limerick.

Consultants brought in to assess the future of the Irish Greyhound Board have extended their work to conduct more detailed investigations into the troubled semi-state company.

Junior minister Tom Hayes has come under cross-party pressure to formally investigate integrity and corporate governance problems at the Irish Greyhound Board.

The chief executive of the Irish Greyhound Board, Adrian Neilan, is to leave his job next week.

Agriculture ministers and department officials held more than a dozen unrecorded meetings with the chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board over the course of 17 months when controversies around its operation began to emerge.

A special investigation into the Irish Greyhound Board’s development of its flagship €23m stadium in Limerick looks imminent.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney said there was nothing untoward about his appointment of a Fine Gael strategist as a

Directors at cash-strapped semi- state company the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) and their predecessors have defended an expenses regime which, in one case, saw a political appointee claim €1,000 a week for travel costs.

After spending a year resisting the publication of its chairman’s expenses, the Irish Greyhound Board has said it now has no problem with the release of the information.

The Irish Greyhound Board is facing a €1.5m lawsuit and a demand to annul the result of the 2010 Derby final after a top dog was found to have been drugged in its care.

Key findings of an internal investigation into a greyhound race-fixing scam have not made it into the official report published about the scandal.

One of the Irish Greyhound Board’s chief internal investigators has accused its chairman of attempting to obstruct an inquiry into a race-fixing scam.

One of the Irish Greyhound Board’s chief internal investigators has accused its chairman of attempting to obstruct an inquiry into a race-fixing scam.

ONE of Simon Coveney’s first ministerial board appointments saw a key election organiser for his Cabinet colleague Phil Hogan installed as the chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board in Apr 2011.

A sensational letter from a director of the Irish Greyhound Board to the minister who appointed him has blamed political interference for reckless decisions that have brought the industry to the brink of collapse.

For the first time the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) has admitted it broke spending rules and did not properly tender for a number of different contracts.

The Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) faced down an internal revolt after quashing a positive drug test on a dog owned by one of the sport’s biggest backers.

A dog doping case exposed a range of irregularities in the system before the investigator said case closed, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

Whilst talking to IGB chairman Phil Meaney, prior to the start of the Greyhound Forum at Curraheen Park just a couple of months ago, I suggested that the time when the IGB would no longer need a presence on RTÉ’s Aertel service was not far away, but that the time had not yet arrived.

The richest ever greyhound competition in this country — outside of the Irish Derby — will be staged in Limerick next March, thanks to the generous sponsorship of JP and Noreen McManus.

Irish greyhound racing will have its own Breeders’ Cup this year with the staging of the Night Of Stars at Shelbourne Park on Saturday, December 1.

Bord na gCon would like to comment on and totally refute key misinformed points as presented by the Irish Examiner edition on Tuesday, May 8.

DOLORES Ruth’s magnificent year continued at Shelbourne Park when she was presented with the Irish Greyhound Review Personality of the Year Award.

THE Ladbrokes.com Irish Derby got off to a tremendous start at Shelbourne Park last night with some fabulous performances.

THE full extent of doubling up across hundreds of publicly-funded quangos has been revealed for the first time, with more than 300 people sitting on at least two state bodies.

NEW Irish Greyhound Board chairman Phil Meaney has described his role as “exciting and challenging”.

The appointment of Phil Meaney as Chairman of Bord na gCon, as exclusively reported in yesterday’s Irish Examiner, was confirmed yesterday morning by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney.

AGRICULTURE Minister Simon Coveney has defended the appointment of a Fine Gael strategist as the chair of the country’s greyhound racing body, Bord na gCon.